(6 Aug 2006)
1. Wide of Sucre Airport
2. Cutaway of Bolivian flag / security
3. Evo Morales waving at press after stepping down from plane
4. Cutaway of Bolivian flag
5. Carlos Lage receiving Sucre's keys form local dignitaries
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos Lage, Cuban vice-President:
"We receive in the name of our people and of our government and of the Comrade Fidel the key of the city and we reaffirm and repeat our militant and unbreakable friendship with the Bolivian people."
7. Morales and Lage walking away
8. Pan down from airport tower to Cars leaving airport "
9. Exterior of House of Liberty, where the ceremony for the beginning of the Constitution Assembly will take place on Sunday
10. Guards in traditional vest outside the House of Liberty
11. Close up of guard with Bolivian flag in background
12. Man selling Bolivian flags in Sucre's May 25 square
13. Wide of Sucre's centre streets with no traffic
14. Close up of Bolivian Flags
15. Close up of indigenous woman
16. Medium of indigenous women
17. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop: Oscar Valderrama:
"I urge all the members of the Constitution Assembly to create a new Bolivia with the start of the Assembly on August 6."
18. Cutaway of indigenous people sitting on the sidewalk on Sucre's May 25 square
19. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Voxpop: Carlos Mamani:
"That this could be the occasion once for all to eliminate all the bad people from Bolivia."
20. Close up of Bolivian flag colours on Prefecture Palace in Sucre
21 Wide of Prefecture Palace in Sucre, where dignitaries will be received by President Evo Morales on Saturday ahead of Sunday's ceremonies
STORYLINE:
President Evo Morales' drive to reinvent Bolivia takes a big step on Sunday with the opening of a convention to write a new constitution aimed at ending the centuries-old supremacy of the European-descended minority.
Morales, a leftist elected in December as Bolivia's first Indian president, envisions the nationally elected Constituent Assembly, which has
up to a year to rewrite the constitution, as nothing less than the "refounding" of the country on a new deal for the Indian majority.
Morales landed on Saturday with Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage in a Venezuelan jet.
Lage thanked the Bolivian people on behalf of Cuban President Fidel Castro and stressed the "militant friendship" of the Cuban and the Bolivian people.
President Morales and Vice-President Lage arrived from La Paz where they met privately Saturday morning.
The divisions of class, race, geography and culture that will frame the debate were brought into sharp relief as the 255 delegates elected last month
were sworn in Thursday night.
Sucre is getting ready to celebrate the beginning of the assembly and curious citizens have already gathered in Sucre's main square to watch preparations for the event.
Bolivia's current constitution was adopted in 1967 under Rene Barrientos Ortuno, who rose to power in a military coup and was then elected president.
The last modification came in 1994, when President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada forced changes to the electoral process, including expanding presidential terms from four years to five.
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