<div id="subtitle">Bolivian president decrees 2nd holiday celebrating nation's founding</div><div><p>Bolivians can now celebrate their country's founding twice a year.</p><p>President Evo Morales has decreed Jan. 22 a national holiday. That's the date last week when he announced the end of colonialism and the emergence of an ethnically inclusive republic.</p><p>Morales has championed the eradication of all vestiges of colonial repression and discrimination against the country's indigenous majority. The new constitution gives Bolivia's 36 ethnic groups the right to self-determination at the municipal level.</p><p>The South American nation's 1825 independence from Spain is celebrated on Aug. 6.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=67991156&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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