Bolivia’s tenacious indigenous leader
Bolivia’s tenacious indigenous leader
Monday, 13 October 2014 08:35
Posted by Parvez Jabri
LA PAZ: Evo Morales grew up in poverty on Bolivia's high plains and was a llama herder, musician, footballer and coca grower before rising to become the country's first indigenous president.
After overseeing almost nine years of nationalizations, pro-poor policies and an economic boom that has transformed Latin America's poorest country, the 54-year-old won re-election by a landslide Sunday, according to exit polls, giving him a third term in power.
He may be the region's longest-serving sitting president, but Morales remains immensely popular with Bolivians -- 65 percent of whom are indigenous -- for feats like building the world's highest cable car and launching the country's first satellite, as well as landmark gains against hunger and poverty.
It is all a very long way from his childhood herding llamas and helping his parents in the fields in a small, arid village in western Bolivia's Oruro department.
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It should be destroyed so it doesn't act as a model for surrounding nations.
I'm sure American intelligence operations are presently underway to undermine the Morale's government.
God bless the USA (and capitalism). 
