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PRESIDENT Evo Morales told Bolivians yesterday that he has not given up hope of victory in a referendum to run for a fourth consecutive term.
While a majority of city-based voters had rejected his proposal, he retained faith in the slower-reporting countryside, declaring himself heartened by the early results and calling celebrations by his opponents premature.
With 40 per cent of Sunday’s vote counted, 62 per cent of voters have opposed a constitutional amendment to let Mr Morales run again in 2019.
Latin America is being swept by a series of right-wing electoral victories. But behind that shift to the right lies less of an ideological conversion than anger, fear, insecurity, and a deep crisis of democracy, asserts MARC VANDEPITTE
LEE BROWN highlights the latest attempts to undo progressive reforms instated during the presidency of Rafael Correa
