by Will Jaffe | Nov 15, 2020 | University of Chicago
(AP Photo/Juan Karita) After nearly a year in exile, former President Evo Morales returned to Bolivia on November 9th to a crowd of adoring fans at the Argentinian border. In spite of his record of authoritarian behavior in office, he remains a popular figure on...
by Justin Kopek | Jun 9, 2020 | Arizona State University
On November 10, 2019, facing claims of election fraud and demands from the country’s military for his resignation, Bolivian President Evo Morales stepped down, after almost 14 years at the head of the government. To supporters of Bolivia’s first indigenous president,...
by Hannah Jervis | Dec 15, 2019 | Georgia State University
Bolivia is a Presidential Republican governmental state. In 2005, Bolivia moved toward socialism by electing Evo Morales as president. He ran on a promise to change the traditional political class of the country and empower the nation’s poor and indigenous people...
by Martin Lamera | Dec 2, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
The tension is still high and Morales’ supporters were claiming that Evo Morales was a victim of a coup drawn by the military and political enemies (right-wing politicians). The possibility of an increase of human rights abuses is inevitable at the moment due to the...
by Brett Jones | Apr 4, 2019 | Saint Louis University
Not many would disagree, international observers and Bolivians alike, that this upcoming election in Bolivia will be a fork in the road for the country and the state of its democracy. The election will take place on October 20th of this year. Why is this election so...
