Evo Morales

About Evo Morales

From 2006 until 2019, he served as President of Bolivia as a Bolivian activist and socialist leader. He notably instituted a new constitution before being re-elected in 2009 as he saw his landslide victory as a mandate from his country for change.

Juan Evo Morales Ayma is a Bolivian politician and former communist activist who served as the 65th President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Regarded as the country's first president among indigenous people, his administration focuses on the implementation of policies of left and the struggle for the influence of the United States and multinational corporations. Ideologically socialist, he has led the Socialist Movement Party since 1998. Born into a family of self-sufficient Aymara peasants in Isallawi, Orinoca township, Morales received basic education and compulsory military service before moving to the province of Chapare in 1978. Cultivation of coca bush became a member of the union, he became prominent in the campesino union. As such, he campaigned against American and Bolivian attempts to destroy coca bushes in the wake of the War on Drugs, denouncing it as a violation of imperialism to textual culture.

Succeeded by	Jeanine Áñez
Born	Juan Evo Morales Ayma, October 26, 1959, Isallavi, Oruro, Bolivia
Children	Evaliz Morales Alvarado, Álvaro Morales Peredo
Parents	Dionisio Morales Choque, María Ayma Mamani
Relatives	Esther Morales
Preceded by	Eduardo Rodríguez, Veltzé
Vice President	Álvaro García Linera
Political party	Movement for Socialism

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Trivia

He earned the nickname the World Hero of Mother Earth for his commitment to anti-imperialism and indigenous rights.

Evo Morales before fame

He spent two years in the Bolivian Army's Special Troops.

Achievement of Evo Morales

For his commitment to anti-imperialism and indigenous rights, he was dubbed the World Hero of Mother Earth.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$500 Thousand

Evo Morales family life

Only two of his six siblings, Esther and Hugo, lived to adulthood. Eva Liz Morales Alvarado and Alvaro Morales Paredes were his children.

Associations of Evo Morales

Karl Marx's views influenced his political ideologies to some extent.

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