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Evo Morales

26 October 1959 – present

Evo Morales is a Bolivian politician and former coca growers' union leader who served as President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Of Aymara origin, he led the Movement for Socialism party and was the country's first president to identify as indigenous. He resigned in November 2019 amid disputed election results and protests, went into exile, and returned to Bolivia in 2020.

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Born in Isallavi, Orinoca, Oruro Department, Bolivia
26 October 1959

Born into an Aymara subsistence farming family on the Bolivian Altiplano.

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Moved to the Chapare province after drought devastated the Altiplano
c. 1980

Relocated with his family to the coca-growing lowlands of Cochabamba Department.

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Began work as a coca growers' union official in the Chapare
1985

Rose through the cocalero union structure, later becoming executive secretary of the federation.

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Elected to the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies
1997

Won a seat representing the Cochabamba region.

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Expelled from Congress and finished second in the presidential election
2002

Stripped of his congressional seat in January 2002, he ran for president that year as the Movement for Socialism candidate and placed second.

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Won the Bolivian general election
18 December 2005

Secured an outright majority of the vote in the December 2005 election.

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Inaugurated as President of Bolivia
22 January 2006 – 10 November 2019

Took office in January 2006 and was re-elected in 2009 and 2014.

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Resigned the presidency amid protests over the disputed 2019 election
10 November 2019

Stepped down after an Organization of American States audit reported irregularities and the armed forces chief called for his resignation.

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Went into exile in Mexico and later Argentina
12 November 2019 – 9 November 2020

Accepted asylum in Mexico days after resigning, then moved to Argentina in December 2019.

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Returned to Bolivia
9 November 2020

Crossed back from Argentina the day after Luis Arce was inaugurated as president.

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