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| {{Infobox person|name=Juan Evo Morales Ayma|image=Evo Morales.png|birth_date=26 October 1959|birth_place=Isallavi, Oruro, Bolivia|image_size=200|nationality=[[Bolivia|Bolivian]]|known=65th [[President of Bolivia]] (2006-2019)|field=[[Left-wing politics]]}}
| | '''Juan Evo Morales Ayma''' is a Bolivian politician, [[trade union]] organizer, and former [[cocalero]] activist who served as the 65th [[President of Bolivia]] from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country's first president to come from [[Indigenous peoples in Bolivia|its indigenous population]], his administration focused on the implementation of [[Left-wing politics|leftist]] policies and combating the influence of the United States and [[multinational corporations]]. Ideologically a [[socialist]], he has led the [[Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)|Movement for Socialism]] (MAS) party since 1998. |
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| '''Juan Evo Morales Ayma''' is a [[Bolivia|Bolivian]] politician, [[trade union]] organizer, and former [[cocalero]] activist who served as the 65th [[President of Bolivia]] from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country's first president to come from [[Indigenous peoples in Bolivia|its indigenous population]], his administration focused on the implementation of [[Left-wing politics|leftist]] policies and combating the influence of the [[United States of America|United States]] and [[Multinational corporation|multinational corporations]]. Ideologically a [[Socialism|socialist]], he has led the [[Movement for Socialism (Bolivia)|Movement for Socialism]] (MAS) party since 1998. | |
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| In 2018, Morales gave a speech at the United Nations in which he denounced [[United States imperialism|US imperialism]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Frances Solá-Santiago|newspaper=Remezcla|title=At United Nations, Bolivian President Evo Morales Says US “Does Not Care for Human Rights”|date=2018-09-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225202545/https://remezcla.com/culture/bolivia-evo-morales-united-states-general-assembly/|archive-date=2019-12-25}}</ref>
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| His fourth elected term was interrupted by a US-backed smear campaign by the [[Organization of American States|OAS]] to challenge the electoral results, which later proved to be baseless.<ref>[https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/internacionales/265300-bolivian-prosecutors-office-concludes-that-there-was-no-electoral-fraud-in-2019 Bolivian Prosecutor's Office concludes that there was no electoral fraud in 2019] reported by [[Cuba]]'s [[Radio Havana Cuba]]</ref> This American smear campaign culminated in a 2019 US-backed [[colour revolution]] led by [[Jeanine Áñez]], which caused [[Plurinational State of Bolivia|Bolivia]] to devolve into a [[Far-right politics|far-right]] [[Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie|bourgeois dictatorship]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8h7igz7ii8 How Bolivia Won: The 2019 Coup to the 2020 Election]</ref>
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| == References == | | == References == |
| | His fourth elected term was interrupted by a US-backed smear campaign by the [[Organization of American States|OAS]] to challenge the electoral results, which later proved to be baseless.<ref>[https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/internacionales/265300-bolivian-prosecutors-office-concludes-that-there-was-no-electoral-fraud-in-2019 Bolivian Prosecutor's Office concludes that there was no electoral fraud in 2019] reported by [[Cuba]]'s [[Radio Havana Cuba]]</ref> |
| [[Category:Former heads of state]] | | [[Category:Former heads of state]] |
| [[Category:Socialist rulers]] | | [[Category:Socialist rulers]] |
| [[Category:Anti-imperialists]] | | [[Category:Anti-imperialists]] |
