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- In government, Morales sought to engineer an abrupt change from neoliberal policies pursued by elite-led civilian administrations since the 1980s, reasserting the role of the state in development, bringing the all-important hydrocarbons industry back into public control, speeding up land reform, introducing a constitution that reasserted indigenous rights, and enacting policies designed to redistribute income and combat poverty.
oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/abstract/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-503Evo Morales and Bolivian Politics in the 20th and 21st Centuries
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Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, is regarded as a champion of indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and environmentalism. Morales' legacy is largely defined by his efforts to rewrite the nation's constitution, which was approved by voters in a national referendum in 2009.
Dec 1, 2021 · Assessing the health of Bolivia’s democracy during Morales’ presidency in comparison to the brief interim government that followed him and to the current administration in power offers insight into whether Morales is the true culprit of democratic erosion in Bolivia.
During his second term, Morales began to speak openly of "communitarian socialism" as the ideology that he desired for Bolivia's future. [230] He assembled a new cabinet which was 50% female, a first for Bolivia, [ 231 ] although by 2012, that had dropped to a third. [ 183 ]
Nov 26, 2019 · As the country's first Indigenous president, Morales promised to bring power to marginalized groups. And he fulfilled that promise.
- Túpac Katari’S Symbolic Return
- Coca Fields and Street Rebellions
- The Evo Morales Government
- “The Open Veins of Latin America Are Still Bleeding”
- The Power of The Past
Over two hundred years before the Morales government launched a satellite bearing his name, the Aymara indigenous rebel Katari led a 109-day siege of La Paz that rattled Spanish colonial rule. Katari’s revolt was part of an indigenous insurrection across the Andes launched in 1780 from Cuzco and Potosí, and spread by Katari to La Paz in March 1781....
The road to Evo Morales’s election was a long and tumultuous one, forged in coca fields and street rebellions. Morales is a former coca grower and union leader who rose up from the grassroots as an activist fighting against the US militarization of the tropical coca-growing region of the Chapare in the central part of the country. (Although it is a...
Such protests and others promoting land reform and demanding a new, progressive constitution opened up new spaces for radical alternatives to the neocolonial state, putting Bolivian sovereignty and a full rejection of the neoliberal model at the center of the country’s politics. The MAS and Morales emerged from this period of discontent as the most...
When I sat down in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 2003 for an early morning interview with Evo Morales, then a coca farmer leader and congressman, he was drinking fresh-squeezed orange juice and ignoring the constant ringing of the landline phone at his union’s office. Just a few weeks before our meeting, a nationwide social movement demanded that Bolivia...
While Bolivia’s diverse social and indigenous movements wield power from the streets, the MAS and Morales have successfully maintained and deepened their influence in part by mobilizing indigenous and working-class identity as an extension of party politics. The coca leaf is often used by the MAS in political campaigning as a symbol both of indigen...
Now, in the first decade of the 21st century, Evo Morales, Bolivia’s first indigenous president, embodies the desire to change the world while in power—borrowing Subcomandante Marcos’ concept, “to rule by obeying the people” (mandar obedeciendo), a phrase prominently displayed on billboards with the president’s image throughout Bolivia.
Oct 8, 2019 · The following excerpt from the new book, The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movements and the Decolonization of History in Bolivia, looks at the roots, rise, and presidency of Evo Morales, who is likely to win a fourth term in office in Bolivia’s October 20 general election.
