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Evo Morales, Fashionista

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And the New York Times' Juan Forero is clearly in love:

The question is: Will Mr. Morales, a strapping Aymara Indian with a Roman nose, an infectious smile and a shock of long black hair, catch on as a durable fashion influence?

Strange, perhaps, but clearly better than Spain's Francophile (the other kind) ABC:

Not everyone has been happy about his choice of dress. When he showed up in button-down Spain in early January, two weeks before his inauguration, to meet Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in a sweater, ABC, the conservative Madrid newspaper, scoffed.

"Is there no one who might lend Mr. Morales a dark suit?" asked a writer for the paper, which also noted that "pullovers like that" are given away to the poor in Spain. Reforma in Mexico wrote that the sweater was the "garment of discord, far from official protocol."

The fashion police, though, were quickly drowned out by the likes of José Saramago, the Portuguese Nobel Prize-winning author, who called all the hubbub the "stupid pride of civilized countries."

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