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Evo was reelected. So yeah.

Why Bolivia reelected Evo Morales

[...] Morales - Bolivia's first indigenous president - is one of the region's most strident leftists, a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and a vocal foe of the U.S. Morales's win chalks up another important victory for the region's hard-left, Chavez-led bloc, which also includes Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Cuba.

Morales, a former coca grower, has many detractors, particularly in the energy-rich lowlands who say his programs to assert greater state control over the economy could destroy national productivity. But his wide victory margin was no surprise: he has long appealed to Bolivians who felt shut out by the old political elites in a country where 60 percent of the population identifies as indigenous and the same percentage falls below the poverty line.

"He's an important representative for sectors that see themselves in him. He's lived like them," says Bolivian author and journalist Fernando Molino, who says the president's success lies in his ability to combine renewed Bolivian nationalism with popular-hero status. "He started from very low and now he is where he is."

[...] Girardo Urquizo, a coca farmer, stands as an example of both Morales's popularity and polarizing abilities. Urquizo recently moved to Pando, one of the country's northern, tropical provinces, under Morales's plan to redistribute millions of acres managed by the state to landless Bolivians.

"Evo has always spoken in defense of us, no matter how much the rich and the business people try to marginalize us. I know Evo, he's a real socialist," he says. "When he won the first time, we celebrated, and we still have those feelings."

The policy, as many others that seek to redistribute wealth in the poor, landlocked nation, has generated controversy. Some claim that Morales is relocating his supporters to boost votes in areas that do not support him, while others hail the project as a concrete attempt to address inequality in Bolivia.