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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:
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We do love Evo :evo:
He is a ray of hope to many of us.