{"id":193028,"date":"2009-01-26T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/26\/bolivians-plebiscite-ratifies-new-constitution\/"},"modified":"2009-01-26T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T23:36:00","slug":"bolivians-plebiscite-ratifies-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/26\/bolivians-plebiscite-ratifies-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivians Plebiscite Ratifies New Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evo Moralez got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/26\/america\/26bolivia.php\">new constitution he wanted<\/a> for Bolivia:<\/p>\n<p>Bullet points<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President can now hold 2 consecutive terms.<\/li>\n<li>State ownership of water resources. (There was a water privatizaiton fiasco, where people were charge something like 1\/3 of the monthly salary for water)<\/li>\n<li>Reserved spaces in the legislature and bureaucracy for the Indian population.<\/li>\n<li>Guarantees reproductive rights.<\/li>\n<li>Removes Catholicism as the state religion.<\/li>\n<li>Limits on the size of new landholdings.<\/li>\n<li>Expands the states control of the economy.<\/li>\n<li>Tightens state control of energy resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Generally, it looks like a good thing, though I am always dubious of mandates of ethnically allocated slots in either government or bureaucracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evo Moralez got the new constitution he wanted for Bolivia: Bullet points President can now hold 2 consecutive terms. State ownership of water resources. (There was a water privatizaiton fiasco, where people were charge something like 1\/3 of the monthly salary for water) Reserved spaces in the legislature and bureaucracy for the Indian population. Guarantees &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1000,1068],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-elections","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}