Morales' big win - voters ratify his remaking of Bolivia

Bolivian President Evo Morales isn't South America's first indigenous head of state–that honor belongs to Alejandro Toledo, a Quechua Indian who was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006–but he's certainly the first to capture the imagination of the world outside South America. Morales, first elected in 2005, was the continent's Barack Obama before there was Obama. He is an Aymara Indian and former coca-growers union leader who won the presidential palace while still in his 40s, just decades after a time when Bolivians of his class and skin color weren't even allowed to vote. Morales hit the global stage with retro, Che Guevara"inspired leftist politics and colorful Aymara fashions. But the real question was whether he could actually govern and even improve South America's poorest and most volatile nation.