Bolivia’s census omits ‘mestizo’ as category

Published November 21, 2012 8:30pm ET



LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A dispute over ethnicity marked census-taking day in Bolivia as the landlocked Andean nation’s population submitted Wednesday to its first national head count in 11 years.

The controversy revolved around a decision by the government of President Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, not to include “mestizo” as a category.

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