In Bolivia, union leader Evo Morales has claimed a stunning victory in Sunday’s presidential elections. Exit polls show Morales won just over 50 percent of the vote–giving him the greatest political mandate that any Bolivian president has had in decades. Morales will become the country’s first indigenous head of state. He gave a victory speech Sunday night in Cochabamba.

• Evo Morales: “The indigenous movement, since its inception, is not exclusive, it’s inclusive. That is what we live by. Through our government, we will end discrimination, xenophobia will end, hate will end, and so will the scorn to which we have been submitted historically. We want to live together in the so-called diversity, changing the neo-liberal model and finishing off the colonial state.”