LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Sandal-clad indigenous protesters have excoriated their president, calling him a ''lackey of Brazil.'' Angry demonstrations in front of Brazil's embassy here denounced its ''imperialist'' tendencies. Bolivian intellectuals lambasted the ''São Paulo bourgeoisie,'' likening them to the slave hunters who expanded the boundaries of...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- A senior Interior Ministry official who recently headed Bolivia's counternarcotics police has been arrested in Panama and sent to the United States to face charges that he ran a cocaine trafficking ring. The arrest of the official, René Sanabria, a retired police general, on Thursday and the related arrests in Bolivia of at...
EL ALTO, Bolivia -- It was the day after Christmas. President Evo Morales was on a trip to Venezuela, Bolivia's top ally, so the unenviable task fell to his vice president: announcing an abrupt 73 percent increase in the price of gasoline. The reaction was swift. Protesters ransacked government offices and burned photographs of Mr. Morales, who...
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (f. 26. oktober 1959) er Bolivias præsident siden 2006.
Han er medlem af det socialistiske parti Bevægelsen for socialisme, som bl.a. har nationaliseret olie- og gasindustrien.
Evo Morales' politik er meget venstreorienteret og socialistisk. Hans parti vandt med over 53,7 og senere vandt de med over 67%.
Han har også meldt Bolivia ud af verdensbanken, da han mente, at verdensbanken ødelagde muligheden for at gennemføre ordentlige sociale reformer i landet. Da Evo Morales havde mange revolutionære ideer omkring de sociale reformer i landet blev han nødt til at melde sig ud af verdensbanken.
Evo Morales samarbejder meget med Hugo Chavez, Venezuelas socialistiske præsident. Han samarbejder også med Brasiliens venstreorienterede præsident, samt Nicaraguas nye socialistiske præsident. Fold ud