... 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...

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...Pachakuti? 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...

... 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...

... authorities. He gained growing numbers of admirers 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...

..., 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...

... 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 ...

..., 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...

... 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.” ...

... 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... The right-wing fury and the regionalist revolt that accompanied the drafting of Bolivia’s new constitution, between 2006 and 2008, brought on a full-scale political crisis that threatened to fracture the nation. After winning a popular referendum on his government in August 2008, President Evo...

... the colonial order of things in Bolivia. Bolivia decolonization Evo Morales indigenous peoples memorialization January 11 2007 Focusing on contemporary Latin American experiences and drawing principally on the case of Brazil, this essay traces the genealogy of civil society and analyzes how...