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Sun, Nov 04, 2007 - Page 7　News List  Film details Morales'
struggle with US police  RIGHTS ADVOCATE Bolivia will be the
first to ratify the UN declaration on the rights of native
peoples, which the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand voted
against   In a new feature film about his journey from dirt-poor
sheep herder to Bolivian president, Evo Morales is portrayed
being beaten unconscious by anti-narcotics police and found the
next day by fellow coca union leaders.  In an interview on
Friday, the Bolivian president said there were multiple beatings
during his years fighting forced coca eradication -- and that he
wants the armed US agents who direct his country's anti-
narcotics police to leave.  "It wasn't just once or twice,"
Morales said, becoming animated as he recounted the harrowing
memories from the comfort of his presidential residence. "I
could tell you many of these stories."  Bolivia's first
indigenous president also said that the world