Evo Morales
President, Bolivia
Juan Evo Morales Ayma has been President of Bolivia since 2006. Born in a mining village in Bolivia's western Oruro department, Morales claims to be the country's first fully indigenous head of state. He is the leader of the Bolivian political party "Movimiento al Socialismo," which goes by the Spanish acronym MAS. The group's aims include transferring more power to the country's indigenous and poor communities, and when Morales took office he pledge to reduce poverty, ease restrictions on coca farmers, re-nationalize the country's energy sector, fight corruption, and increase taxes on the wealthy. He was elected to a second term in January, 2009 with a 63% majority.
The element—like an attractive woman—is very much in demand in Bolivia. Unless the government finds a national company it can partner with to industrialize lithium, private companies will soon enter […]
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“Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global,” says the Bolivian president, “because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.”
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Bolivia has joined with Iran, Venezuela and Cuba in a global uprising against capitalism.
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“Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism,” says the Bolivian president, who is disappointed that the American president has not joined him to “work for justice […]
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President Morales meets many people from the U.S. and Europe who support his policies and beliefs. Their governments, not so much.
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With many different faiths in the country “it is not possible to continue having a monopoly of religious faith, only Catholic,” says Morales.
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President Morales has made a point of emphasizing his concern for the environment. Is it a contradiction then that the Bolivian economy depends so heavily on the exploitation of natural […]
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A conversation with the President of Bolivia.
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