Evo Morales

Quick Facts

Full Name	Evo Morales
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 26, 1959(1959-10-26)
Age	65
Birthplace	Orinoca
Country	Bolivia
Birth City	Oruro
Horoscope	Libra

Evo Morales Biography

Evo Morales is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro, Bolivia. Bolivian socialist activist who was president of Bolivia between 2006 and in the year. He also enacted the new constitution prior to being elected again in 2009 because he saw his massive victory as a signal from his country to make changes.

His political philosophies were influenced by the ideas from His political ideologies have been inspired partially by the theories of Karl Marx..

Morales was born in the small rural village of Isallawi in Orinoca Canton, part of western Bolivia’s Oruro Department, on October 26, 1959 to a family from the indigenous Aymara people. One of seven children born to Dionisio Morales Choque and his wife María Ayma Mamani, only he and two siblings, Esther and Hugo, survived past childhood. His mother almost died from a postpartum haemorrhage following his birth. In keeping with Aymara custom, his father buried the placenta produced after his birth in a place specially chosen for the occasion. His childhood home was a traditional adobe house, and he grew up speaking the Aymara language, although later commentators would remark that by the time he had become president he was no longer an entirely fluent speaker.

Juan Evo Morales Ayma (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeβo moˈɾales] ; born October 26, 1959) is a Bolivian politician and former cocalero activist who served as the President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country’s first president to come from its indigenous population, his administration focused on the implementation of leftist policies, poverty reduction, and combating the influence of the United States and multinational corporations in Bolivia. A socialist, he is the head of the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party.

Six siblings were his, however only two of them, Esther and Hugo were able to grow into adults. He had two children named Eva Liz Morales Alvarado and Alvaro Morales Paredes.

Evo Morales Net Worth

Evo Morales is one of the richest Politician from Bolivia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Evo Morales 's net worth $500 Thousand. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He served for two consecutive years with his Special Troops of the Bolivian Army.

He was nicknamed”the World Hero of Mother Earth for his dedication to indigenous rights and anti-imperialism.

Morales is ethnically Aymara, and has been widely described as Bolivia’s first democratically-elected President from the indigenous majority. Although Morales has sometimes been described as the first indigenous president to be democratically elected in Latin America, Benito Juárez, a Mexican of the Zapotec ethnic group, was elected President of Mexico in 1858. Biographer Martín Sivak described Morales as “incorruptible, charismatic, and combative”, also noting that he had a “friendly style” and could develop a good rapport with journalists and photographers, in part because he could “articulate his opinions with simplicity”. He places a great emphasis on trust, and relies on his intuition, sometimes acting on what he considers omens in his dreams. Harten said that Morales “can be a forceful leader, one who instills great respect and, sometimes, a reluctance in others to contradict him, but he has also learnt to listen and learn from other people.” Farthing and Kohl characterized Morales as a “charismatic populist” of a kind common in Latin American history, who prioritized “a direct relationship” between the population and the leader.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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From 1984 to 1985 Morales served as Secretary of Records for the movement, and in 1985 he became General Secretary of the August Second Headquarters. From 1984 to 1991 the sindicatos embarked on a series of protests against the forced eradication of coca by occupying local government offices, setting up roadblocks, going on hunger strike, and organizing mass marches and demonstrations. Morales was personally involved in this direct activism and in 1984 was present at a roadblock where 3 campesinos were killed. In 1988, Morales was elected to the position of Executive Secretary of the Federation of the Tropics. In 1989 he spoke at a one-year commemoratory event of the Villa Tunari massacre in which 11 coca farmers had been killed by agents of the Rural Area Mobile Patrol Unit (Unidad Móvil Policial para Áreas Rurales – UMOPAR). The following day, UMOPAR agents beat Morales up, leaving him in the mountains to die, but he was rescued by other union members. To combat this violence, Morales concluded that an armed cocalero militia could launch a guerrilla war against the government, but he was soon persuaded on an electoral path to change instead. In 1992, he made various international trips to champion the cocalero cause, speaking at a conference in Cuba, and also traveling to Canada, during which he learned of his mother’s death.

Facts & Trivia

Evo Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Bolivia. Evo Morales celebrates birthday on October 26 of every year.

In August 1994 Morales was arrested; reporters present at the scene witnessed him being beaten and accosted with racial slurs by civil agents. Accused of sedition, in jail he began a dry hunger strike to protest his arrest. The following day, 3000 campesinos began a 360-mile (580 km) march from Villa Tunari to La Paz. Morales would be freed on September 7, and soon joined the march, which arrived at its destination on September 19, where they covered the city with political graffiti. He was again arrested in April 1995 during a sting operation that rounded up those at a meeting of the Andean Council of Coca Producers that he was chairing on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Accusing the group of plotting a coup with the aid of Colombia’s FARC and Peru’s Shining Path, a number of his comrades were tortured, although no evidence of a coup was brought forth and he was freed within a week. He proceeded to Argentina to attend a seminar on liberation struggles.

When was Evo Morales overthrown?

2019 Bolivian political crisis
Date| 10 November 2019
Location| La Paz, Bolivia
Caused by| Alleged election fraud in the 2019 Bolivian general election won by incumbent president Evo Morales
Methods| Barricades, demonstrations, and hunger strikes

How did Evo Morales come to power?

The Presidency of Evo Morales began on January 22, 2006 when Evo Morales was inaugurated as the 80th President of Bolivia, following his victory in the 2005 general election, where he won 53.7% of the vote, defeating Jorge Quiroga (second with 28.6%), Samuel Doria Medina (third with 7.8%), and several other candidates.

Is Evo Morales still alive?

Juan Evo Morales Ayma (Spanish pronunciation: [xwan ˈeβo moˈɾales ˈajma]; born 26 October 1959) is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.

Is Bolivia a US ally?

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Is Evo Morales a narco?

The cartel currently has strong connections with the political party of the Movement for Socialism. For all these reasons, the Interamerican Institute for Democracy described the government of Evo Morales as that of a Narco-state .