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Politician and leader of the Bolivian cocalero movement. Elected president of the republic since December 18, 2005, he is the first indigenous person in the history of Bolivia to reach the head of state.
He began his activism in the trade union movement in the 1980s, in the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB), reaching the leadership of the Special Federation of the Tropics, one of the six union federations of coca producers that are organized in the area of the Cochabamba tropics and which since 1991 are coordinated by a Coordination Committee chaired by Evo Morales.
He was one of the founders of the Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (IPSP) that would later be allied with the Movement to Socialism(MAS) to participate in the general elections of 1997, in which he was elected deputy for Cochabamba.
He ran as president in 2002 ending on 2° place, then ran again in 2005 . Bolivians went to the polls on December 18, 2005 and in a majority way supported the marked anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-neoliberal program of Evo Morales eventually winning with 54% of the vote
With the slogan "We are the people, we are MORE!", Morales beat all the odds and won the elections with a historic victory; The victory in the legislative elections did not leave room for doubt either, and the MAS obtained an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Their electoral performance was lower in the Senate and in the departmental prefectures.
On January 22, 2006, Evo Morales took possession of the highest magistracy in the country. The day before, he had been invested as Jacha Mallku [Great Condor], the highest authority of the indigenous peoples, in a ceremony held in Tiwanaku, the Aymara capital.
His victory coincided with a moment of turning to the left in numerous governments in Latin America (The Pink Tide) and occurred after a series of popular mobilizations that aimed to claim the historical right to cultivate coca. of the indigenous and promote a greater benefit of the country's natural resources for Bolivians.
The Rainbow color Flag is the Wiphala is normally used to Represent the indigenous people's of the Andes, it's also the dual flag of Bolivia :MAS:
Also today is Antonio Gramsci birthday
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Sorry to hear that comrade. Mine passed away almost a year ago now.
Luis Acre continues the Bolivian Struggle against imperialism :MAS:
What a result. There's been a bit of doomerism on here the last few days, this is the antidote.
the Pink Tide is still going strong in Latinamerica with Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia at the helm :fidel-salute-big: :chavez-salute: :evo:
with socdems in Mexico. Argentina and Nicaragua. plus in Chile a communist is the most popular candidate for president and in Ecuador it looks like the Socialists are gonna win in the elections, its currently quite bloomerish here
its currently quite bloomerish here
i'm in Brazil and all i can say is :agony-deep:
Great to hear it. The MAS project, in particular, is so inspiring, with it's organizing outside the political sphere. Big solidarity.
All these bernie memes have been somewhat saddening for me. it's reminding me to this time last year when I was planning a trip for job prospects abroad as my miserable position was ending, spending a lot of my free time text-banking and canvassing for bernie, and just genuinely being a tad hopeful about the future.
i'll never forgive this government for it's evil response to covid and absolute refusal to even do the bare minimum for everybody struggling.
Damn. Just realized it’s my brothers birthday today, but he’s on the streets addicted to heroin and doesn’t stay in contact nor has a phone. So I have no way to wish him a happy birthday. :deeper-sadness:
I swear they're starting to grow people in vats now, people just come out looking identical and have identical ways of speaking and identical personalities.
a full half the profiles where I am feature a specific local geographical feature
Look at that: a true reddit moment on /r/worldnews. I'd like to know how Israel firing missiles on Syria, killing civilians, isn't appropriate for a subreddit called "World News". Yet apparently, an article titled "'Fat but fit' is a myth when it comes to heart health, new study shows" is perfectly appropriate.
a condition unchanged from every preceeding january twenty second
I had a Zoom meeting with my coworkers yesterday where people were complaining about upper management's decision to have us resume working from the office in the near future. One of my coworkers mentioned how she has a multiple kids and nowhere for them to go if she isn't working remotely due to daycares being closed. She even said word-for-word "this is corporate America and they don't care about us" which was by far the most based thing I've ever heard working in IT.
One of the upper-level techs chimes in with a well akhshully and says "it's not fair to say they don't care at all" and some other shit I didn't hear because I stopped listening after that. She doubled down on the anti-cap rhetoric and everyone else pretty much backed her up. But working with bootlickers fucking sucks.
So I guess everyone is just pretending like this is the first time we've seen Bernie's mittens made by that teacher, as if there wasn't already a big weird online reaction and two weeks of memes months ago during the primaries, complete with interviews with the teacher in major publications? Is this a side effect of libs deleting their memory of the last four years this quickly now that biden won? Is this actually the first time and I'm just getting blasted by the mandela effect?
Thinking of becoming a WWI guy. We have plenty of WWII guys already but hardly any WWI guys. Gonna get familiar with intimate details of the Kaiser for no reason, and tell people they wouldn't have survived Ypres because they have some cultural affect I don't like.
I had a really nice dream. The kind that makes you sad when you wake up.
I'm so alone. :jokah:
Saved an injured [endangered bird species] today and brought it to wildlife rehab, feeling powerful.
