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Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959), popularly known as Evo (), is a Bolivian politician and activist, serving as the 80th President of Bolivia, a position that he has held since 2006. He is also the leader of both the Movement for Socialism party (MAS) and the cocalero trade union.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Bolivia's government says an opposition senator's highly publicized decision to seek exile in the Brazilian Embassy is meant to embarrass President Evo Morales ahead of next week's annual meeting of the Organization of American States.
The country's OAS ambassador, Diego Pari, calls the move by Sen. Roger Pinto part of an opposition smear campaign timed for the assembly that begins Sunday in the central Bolivian city of Cochabamba.Pinto is from the lowlands state of Pando and heads a weak right-wing opposition in Bolivia's legislature.He claims he's being politically persecuted, has received death threats and has evidence of government corruption. Pinto has provided no evidence, however, since entering the embassy Monday.Bolivian prosecutors say Pinto is wanted on corruption charges.Brazil has not yet decided on Pinto's asylum request....Bolivian officials are denying a report in a U.S. diplomatic cable revealed Tuesday that President Evo Morales had a tumor in his nose.The U.S. ambassador in Brazil ...
Bolivian President Evo Morales says a local aid program will no longer depend on Venezuelan funds.Morales says local money will now back the program known as " Boliv...
President Evo Morales kneed an opposing player in the groin during a soccer match against a team of political rivals after an apparent hard foul by the opponent, ima...
Bolivia's chief prosecutor has filed charges including terrorism and sedition against 39 people accused in an alleged armed conspiracy against President Evo Morales ...
Miners demanding pay raises exploded small dynamite charges Tuesday trying unsuccessfully to break through a police cordon protecting the government's headquarters, ...
Sean Penn no longer lives in a tent, surrounded by some 40,000 desperate people camped on a muddy golf course. And he no longer rushes about the capital with a Glock...
A summit of nearly 30 Western Hemisphere leaders has ended without a joint declaration due to divisions over Cuba and Argentine claims to the Falkland Islands."There...
Could this weekend's gathering of about 30 Western Hemisphere leaders be the last Summit of the Americas?The question hung in the air as the leaders convened Sunday ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live communication with his country's news media in nearly a week Thursday, saying he was in good shape and recoverin...
Argentines desperately searched hospitals Thursday in hopes that loved ones survived a train crash that killed 50 people and sent hundreds to emergency rooms. A stun...
Venezuela informed the United Nations Monday that Hugo Chavez , the country's president, will not address the General Assembly in New York this week, adding speculat...
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Tuesday that U.S. drug agents are not welcome back in his country despite the newly announced normalization of diplomatic relatio...
Bolivian President Evo Morales cancels a decree that sharply raised fuel prices. .
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Friday abruptly canceled a decree that sharply raised fuel prices, reacting to widespread protests and the threat of more to come i...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales has been re-elected as head of Bolivia's largest coca-growers union, a post he has held for more than two decades.Morale...
The fiery coca growers' union leader who rode discontent over his predecessor's pro-business policies to Bolivia's presidency is suddenly grappling with a sharp drop...
Bolivia's corruption-plagued national police force has its seventh new police commander in six years.But some officers are upset by President Evo Morales' choice. Th...
Bolivian President Evo Morales says he plans to recognize an independent and sovereign state of Palestine.Morales says he will send a letter to Palestinian President...
Paraguay granted political refugee status to a key opponent of Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales on Tuesday, sheltering him from corruption charges across the ...
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