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... Evo Morales was born in 1959 in a small Aymara community in the department of Oruro, where he herded llamas as a child. He studied Spanish for the first time during a period of months with his family in Argentina when he was six years old. He attended high school and played trumpet in a band...

... Chapter 1 charts the fall of Evo Morales, a most unusual politician, who helped transform his country, Bolivia, and then overstayed his welcome. Evo Morales Aymara peoples 2019 Bolivian election Jeanine Añez Luis Arce Catacora ...

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... Evo Morales Aymara peoples 2019 Bolivian election Jeanine Añez Luis Arce Catacora ...

... Evo Morales was born in 1959 in a small Aymara community in the department of Oruro, where he herded llamas as a child. He studied Spanish for the first time during a period of months with his family in Argentina when he was six years old. He attended high school and played trumpet in a band...

... The Movement to Socialism ( mas ) government of Evo Morales has presented itself as offering a new “postneoliberal” project. Yet its development model, relying on the extraction and export of primary raw materials, bears resemblances to that of other governments in the past, whether oligarchic...

... anticolonial discourse. In 1998, the national congress of the Trade Union Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers ( csutcb ) was split internally between the coca-grower Evo Morales and the peasant leader Alejo Véliz. The Mallku was elected secretary-general of the organization to resolve the conflict...

...South America Chapter 1 charts the fall of Evo Morales, a most unusual politician, who helped transform his country, Bolivia, and then overstayed his welcome. Evo Morales Aymara peoples 2019 Bolivian election Jeanine Añez Luis Arce Catacora El Alto is Bolivia’s second-largest...

..., in 2006, Evo Morales made categories of difference the basis for a new sense of pride and national belonging, these same tactics formed the basis for opposition by antigovernment forces outside the highlands. Those forces argued that it was the government’s promotion of indigenous values that introduced...

... for the audacity of his anticolonial discourse. In 1998, the national congress of the Trade Union Confederation of Bolivian Peasant Workers ( csutcb ) was split internally between the coca-grower Evo Morales and the peasant leader Alejo Véliz. The Mallku was elected secretary-general of the organization...

... The afterword charts three recent eruptions along the fault lines explored in this book. The first section examines the role of resource regionalism in the explosive end of Evo Morales’s regime in 2019, the second section traces a conversation about communitarian mining that began in 2014...

... This chapter introduces the book’s key actors, claims, and theoretical contributions. Mining cooperatives are collectives of small-scale miners who supported former president Evo Morales’s left-leaning government and participated in the formation of the Plurinational State, yet they are widely...

... In August 2011, lowland indigenous organizations set off on a new march to protest the government’s plan to build a highway through the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park ( tipnis ). It was a fraught moment—President Evo Morales had declared the road would go through...

... taken place in ways that reinforce rather than challenge the colonial order of things in Bolivia. Bolivia decolonization Evo Morales indigenous peoples memorialization January 11 2007 ...

... in the Evo Morales government in 2006, he was the most prominent cabinet member of indigenous origin and one of the foremost advocates of the utopia of “living well.” ...

..., he stood alongside Evo Morales and Felipe Quispe as the most visible leaders of the growing popular movement in the country. In this text, Olivera criticizes the neoliberal drive to privatize common resources, from the perspective of the social movements and civil society in Cochabamba. Even...

... region with vigor and, if necessary, violence. The activities of the Youth Union increased dramatically with the reconstitution of the regional autonomy movement in the early 2000s and with the fierce regionalist battle against Evo Morales’s government after 2006. In the following excerpts from the Youth...

.... Nevertheless, the two versions of the law contain a highly innovative view of the relationship between humans and nature and suggest the ways in which the MAS government of Evo Morales took at least formal legal steps to incorporate indigenous and peasant worldviews as it sought to rewrite the terms...

... autonomy movement have argued that Camba Nation’s founding was not a simple response to the increasing visibility of firebrand social leaders like Felipe Quispe advocating Indian self-government or Evo Morales promoting trade-union power. In any event, these cruceño leaders came to believe, by 2001...