Most egregious was that the president was running in 2019 at all: In a 2016 referendum, voters rejected constitutional changes to allow him to run for a fourth term, but he did it anyway, relying on a dubious ruling from the Supreme Court justices he had appointed that barring him from running again violated his human rights. We encountered an issue signing you up.

[332] She later sent a letter to the Bolivian Ombudsman in which she said that the police had kept her from eating for two days and threatened to prosecute her for sedition and terrorism unless she said that she had been in a relationship with Morales. From a democracy perspective, the election is mostly a win and continues the recent global trend of coups: In addition to being much less common than they were during the Cold War, these days they’re far more likely to lead to a quick return to democratic elections. [281] Despite Morales' declaration in 2014 that he would not attempt to alter the constitution so that he could serve a fourth term,[282] in 2015 Morales began exploring legal efforts to make a fourth term possible.
Accusations of Fraud. He is the head of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party. The government refused to increase the rise, accusing protesters of being pawns of the right.
Still, he’ll have his work cut out for him now: The coronavirus has devastated the country’s economy, and he can no longer count on the high commodities prices that fueled the Morales-era boom. [270], Controversy arose when a new $34 million presidential skyscraper residence, the Casa Grande del Pueblo, was constructed in the historical Plaza Murillo.

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[258], However, he successfully did so and after proclaiming victory in the election, Morales declared it "a triumph of the anti-colonialists and anti-imperialists" and dedicated his win to both Castro and Chávez. Ultimately deeming the conference to have been a failure, he oversaw the World's People Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth outside of Cochabamba in April 2010. Highest Foreign Direct Investment in South America: While the business press consider nationalizations to be anathema to attracting international investment, Bolivia actually had the highest level of foreign direct investment, as a percent of GDP, in South America in 2013. He is not on the ballot, but former President Evo Morales looms large in Bolivia’s much-anticipated national elections Sunday.. [225] His primary opponent, Reyes Villa, gained 27% of the vote. Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, Morales agreed to military calls for his resignation, Unique Confederation of Rural Laborers of Bolivia, Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, election to form a Constitutional Assembly, Unrest then broke out across eastern Bolivia, 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), Evo Morales and the Roman Catholic Church, "El MAS reconoce la sucesión por renuncia y abandono de funciones de Evo y Álvaro", "Profile: Bolivia's President Evo Morales", "Evo Morales: Bolivian leader wants five more years in power", "Evo entrega modulo educativo "Maria Ayma" y dice que nunca influyó en nombramiento de obras - Diario Pagina Siete", "Bolivian president slashes salary for public schools", "Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto Program", "Conditional cash transfers for primary education: Which children are left out? [382], Based on interviews conducted among Bolivians in 2012, John Crabtree and Ann Chaplin described the previous years of Morales's rule with the observation that: "for many—perhaps most—Bolivians, this was a period when ordinary people felt the benefits of policy in ways that had not been the case for decades, if ever. [254] In August, 800 protesters embarked on a protest march from Trinidad to La Paz; many were injured in clashes with police and supporters of the road. [363][364][365] Politician Juan del Granado is Eva Liz's godfather. All these measures helped to curb inflation, while the economy grew (partly because of rising public spending), accompanied by stronger public finances which brought economic stability. [346] From 2009, Morales has advocated "communitarian socialism",[229] while political scientist Sven Harten characterized Morales's ideology as "eclectic", drawing ideas from "various ideological currents". [233], In December 2009, Morales attended the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he blamed climate change on capitalism and called for a financial transactions tax to fund climate change mitigation. I cultivate coca leaf, which is a natural product.

[294] The court of the ACHR in 2018 reviewed and upheld the legality of term limits, automatically triggering reinstatement of Bolivian term limit laws.

[13] In keeping with Aymara custom, his father buried the placenta produced after his birth in a place specially chosen for the occasion. Morales entered electoral politics in 1995, became the leader of the MAS, and was elected to Congress in 1997.

[42], In his speeches, Morales presented the coca leaf as a symbol of Andean culture that was under threat from the imperialist oppression of the U.S.