How A Farm Boy Became Bolivia’s President - And Lost It All | AJ+
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- In 2006, Bolivia inaugurated its first Indigenous president, Evo Morales. Some 13 years later, Morales has fled the country and a right-wing interim government with a Christian fundamentalist has taken his place. Did Bolivia just experience a coup?
We’re going to look at how colonialism, white supremacy and a lack of Indigenous rights has defined most of Bolivia’s history - and what went wrong for Evo Morales.
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Yet the Bolivian people chose his, party yet again, hmmm.
@Lil Rob this election is important because the people of Bolivia rejected the American coup
@Lil Rob The elections were preceded by months of protesting by supporters of MAS. It’s clear that the majority of the people support Evo Morales and his party
@@AceFromGorillaz MAS isn't his party, they just endorsed him and the reason why so many people voted for MAS was because Luis Arce is a NeoLiberal, it doesn't mean that it somehow vindicates Evo Morales in the least bit, he rigged the elections because he knew he would lose. Not only that Evo Morales has been back in Bolivia for months and MAS barred him from ever participating in politics ever again.
What lol? He put it up to a vote and the people voted against amending the constitution. Therefore, he shouldn’t have even run
@@gg-uq6zm yet they voted for his party again after the American backed coup
Im sorry to say but europeans rulers have done so much damage to in the world.
They have
They were aided and in partnership with the vatican, or the other state religions.
@@johngillon6969 They were?
@@redwater4778 Sure they were, the catholic priests were preaching that Evo was worshiping false gods, and he had to go.
@@johngillon6969 The Catholic priests built the first schools hospitals and orphanages in the new world. They were the first socialists in the Americas.
P.S. Bolivia was on its way to joining OPEC before the military take over. USA wants to control the votes in OPEC.
Update: he won again and my boy is back
actuallz your boy didnt come back to the power, more and more people from MAS, the socialist party are hating on him, which I love it... he is a liaaar and he is so obssessed with power.
He is a dictator that doesnt follow the democracy he so much loved when he first got elected
@@belfiore1495 well thank god the architect for bolivia's economy is president.
The rise and rise of Evo Morales*
It is scary how Trump wanted this to happen in the USA
A coup fueld by hate. Before the coup most people didn't know why they were against the government and whenever I would ask some colleagues, friends, strangers, etc. I would always get something along the lines of " umm...because they're corrupt... and...umm.. drugs" basically just babbling out what they heard from some of the also biased local media. They would sound unsure because in reality they knew their real reasons were politically incorrect. In Bolivia no matter how much or how little eauropean ancestry a person may have they will always try to look down on someone with less of it and by being against an indigenous government they thought they'd be better looked upon in society. Of course my compatriots will call me out and exclaim such thing doesn't exist but we know it does, it's just a truth most people don't want to admit here in Bolivia beacuase it would expose the self hatred inbeded in society.
I would have to disagree with your statement on opposition against Evo. He illegally ran four times, faked votes, and has been known to make drug deals. I agree that Bolivia has had and still has a problem with racism and tension between European descendants and indigenous people but that has nothing to do with Evo's outright corruption.
@@theosvult4857 however while I disagree on running for a fourth term, he was fine with holding new elections and a new poll for fairness.
Infiltrators go around and spread decent . Spreading fake news and rumors. The CIA has done this many times.
@Scott Laux Yet claimed to be Christian. More like the Anti-Christ!
Anyways, he is back stronger than ever, and this time there is new generation of people that is going through a heavy process of decolonization, re education in order to avoid this to happen again, and we will fight racism and fascism for the rest of our lives. This coup changed our lives, Bolivia has a lot to teach to South America and many countries like Chile or Argentina would never have an indigenous president like us. Even less with that amount of success. Morales will face justice for his mistakes, but the truth is, he was the best president Bolivia ever had, and it is not just him, all the people behind the process of change worked so hard to make this success a reality. After the coup I got to meet some. The good ones, the antropoligists, philosophers, politogolists, indigenous feminists, really, what Bolivia has accomplished with Evo was great. Not perfect. But GREAT. and no country in the world ever achieved that. There was too much blood spilled to defend the process of change ever since colonisation. You still need to re check your bolivian history in order to realize how big this is, and how much work there is still to do, and how much compromise this implies, to visualize change not in 2 years, but in 50-100 years.
OAS literally did the same thing previously to other Latin American countries that weren’t right wing governments
Name them
Maybe left wing governments are such colossal retards that they collapse because of their stupidity and then blame on others. Average populist.
I love Evo Morales, but he shouldn’t have ran a 4th time. He put his movement in a really bad situation.
What is there to love about him? You know absolutely nothing about him other than you think he's a socialist and an indigenous which he's not.
If Americans actually knew some of the awful things he has said and done over the course of 10 years they would be calling him a fascist.
@@intihumala9087 What “awful things” has he done?
The time is now. Our ppl have always had a monarchy not this halfassshit
@@intihumala9087 ok. What has he done then.?
I think there needs to be more information. Right after the October 10 elections there were protests in La Paz, Oruro, Potosi, Tarija, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, and Sucre. These are 7 of the 9 largest cities in Bolivia. After November 11, whether one calls it a coup or resignation of Evo Morales, the protests were only in the cities Sacaba and El Alto. The 2nd and 9th largest cities in Bolivia. I feel that a possible reason as to why, the military suggested that Morales resign because they were more willing to deal with 2 cities protesting than having to deal with 7 cities protesting.
I agree that Morales did a lot for the indigenous peoples of Bolivia. But by 2019, Morales lost much of his support from the indigenous peoples. Personally, before the elections I figured that if Morales won he would only face protests in Santa Cruz and Tarija. I didn't expect protests to occur in the other 5 cities, because of the many indigenous peoples in those cities. I saw that much more people wanted Morales out of office that in office. Morales had his supporters in Sacaba, where most cocaleros lived, and in El Alto, where people are very supportive of socialism.
In addition, I feel that there is a need to mention that Bolivia is made of 3 different cultures. Namely, Cambas, Collas, and Chapacos. Thsee 3 very different groups of people often have an intense dislike for each other. When Morales resigned, I heard many people say that Bolivia was finally united, " no longer Camba, Colla, and Chapaco but Bolivian".
I feel that where Morales failed was his insisting to run for a 4th term. Many people saw Morales as moving on a path to becoming a dictator. Someone else from his party should have run for president. Had Morales stayed in Bolivia after November 11th/12th... we would have seen something very different. There would of possibly been much more turmoil in Bolivia. After October 20 Morales was in hiding. I was afraid for his life. His sister's home was burned down and many of the homes of the leaders of MAS throughout the country.
It also seems that unfortunately there was much more news coverage after the so-called coup in Bolivia. So much more people around the world were hearing information of Bolivia after November 11th not hearing what was happening in Bolivia between October 20 - November 10.
Personally, I feel where Morales "Lost it All" was his decision to run for a 4th term. If Morales would have stepped down after his 3rd term, he would have still been popular in Bolivia.
@JohnnyTheWolf Right on. A coup. Evo Morales saved Bolivia and this is his repayment.
I agree except with him continuing to be popular. After he left a lot of things were uncovered, from drug dealings and corruption to having sexual relations with a minor. Evo did do both good and bad for the country, no one is perfect, but he had to go.
@JohnnyTheWolf I think you are full of shit. South American countries need to learn how to handle their natural resources so the economy and education can develop into more reliable forms of income. I say this as a Bolivian.
Bolivia is an oil producing nation and was slated to join OPEC . US big oil wants to control the votes of OPEC
Time has proven you dead wrong bud
From California we love you Evo and Bolivia 🇧🇴❤
of course youre from commiefornia
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356Touch grass
@@UmQasaann get out of your mommies basement
@@UmQasaann Evo is based. Arce is Based. MAS is based.
MÁS IS BACK!
Evo morales won the 2019 election legally. The majority of the people/citizens of Bolivia wanted Evo Morales for president for a fourth term. Except the USA wanted Evo out....
well a fourth term isn't really legal xd
@@noahzemans585 it is in Bolivia
@@noahzemans585 bolivia isnt the US sweetheart, they dont have term limits in many nations
@@magnusorn7313 Bro im Bolivian born in cochabamba lived here all my life and there is a 2 Term limit so, educate yourself sweet-heart. XD
@@noahzemans585 except the supreme court said otherwise, so its legal
It's a coup.
uh? based!
@@tamerlane9889 the opotition paying the army and the police to betraid evo is coup
As a Bolivian myself and lived through this, I find the information on this video very accurate and everyone should know about it.
You aren't Bolivian
Lier!!!!
@@Miawte 100%
@@itsdavedyck how do you feel now that the oas lied and news are published that Bolivia denies that evo was a fruad
@@itsdavedyck www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/27/oas-has-lot-answer-new-mit-study-disputes-key-claim-paved-way-right-wing-coup
It was all fake pageantry for the western cameras.
Bolivians have taken their country back
Evo is back
amazing that these things never have ..... good dialogue with the PEOPLE and their claim
CALL IT A COUP YOU COWARDS
MAS won :)
She just got arrest hahahah
I’m glad America made a fighting game tournament named after this man, hosted every August in Las Vegas. EVO, baby!
the communists are jailing opposition leaders
Somehow it doesn’t seem as though he has ‘fallen’. Contrarily my instinct says he, and his people continue to rise. The Coup is severe to be sure, but is maybe just one more challenge to endure and progress through.
That's the only truth. This isn't the end for Evo or the Pinktide. This is the beginning, for the battle of Bolivia's soul
It's called the "fall" because he could've gone down in history for all the good things he did for Bolivia, but lost it all when he tried to dictate the country by not respecting the Bolivian Constitution
@@itsdavedyck And yet he did not dictate indeed he is still not gone, so no it is not a fall
He wasn't able to cause we overthrew him
Jud Sojourn , the indigenous people have been enduring abuse eve since the Spanish arrived in 1532 with war trained dogs, horses that the indigenous people did not know, priests and the ever famous bible. The Inca couldn’t understand what the Spanish were telling him the Bible was saying, to punish him they demanded gold and silver, then they killed him anyway, by quartering him tied to four horses to rip him apart. Today’s “whites” would love to do this again. The constitution was writing by whites to ser I their needs. Indigenous people were not considered people, they were considered government proxy, so Morales needed to change the constitution to recognize the 36 different people’s as Bolivians.
Evo morales was the best president from Bolivia because he helped a lot people.
I am Bolivian, I live in La Paz and Evo ordered to suppress the protests with the use of dynamite and armed guerrilla groups ... besides doing the ELECTORAL FRAUD ... and believe me that in my country nobody wants him ... only The Chapare, which is where coca is planted and sent to Venezuela. If you do not live in my country, do not dare to make such ignorant statements.
He certainly did some good things but overall he sucked. Tried to dictate the country, rejected the Bolivian Constitution, killed innocent people, and on and on.
@@itsdavedyck that is false.
YOU ARE FALSE!!! You have no idea apparently
I'm not Bolivian so I can't weight in on your politics but it seems like Anez is bad for you guys. She sounds like bad news.
His party won😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
Sometimes a country needs a strong man that as his people interest at heart and as a leader you can't please everyone
I absolutely hate this watered down american suposedly impartial videos that cover hispanic american countries whith such a biased an propagantistic maner that it is offensive. It is not about race, but about the whole political system and societal construct. The fact that it is easier for the elite to exploit their people instead of making new walth out of modernitation, the fact that all what they want is for hate to divide not only bolivia, but all hispanic america, which despite speaking the same language and having a similar culture to a certain extent is balcanized and filled with absurdarguing between sister nations and finally the fact that all of this occured in the first place due to the premature independence from the spanish empire, who had modernized along side the americas it would have solved the root problems and created more cohesive states.
At 7:35 the woman says that the Bolivian armed forces cannot have an opinion and must remain subordinate. But there’s literally an article in the Bolivian constitution that gives the army the right to propose solutions in the event of national crisis
Not a big fan of Morales’ dictatorial tendencies, but still support what he stands for.
Socialism is evil
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 White settlers = invaders, colonizers and occupiers
Bolivia belongs to the Indigenous peoples!
@@UmQasaannok racist
Anti Amerindian racism is world wide
Indeed
Every country has it's own form of racism. I saw it in vietnam, how the vietnamese hated ethnic chinese in their midst. the filipinos had their own little black people living in the mountains they used to hassle. Those folk in india are just nuts with their racism. Sweeden has a problem with the gypsys. You a saint matthew mann?
The Irish seem to be on your side, kindred spirits and similar struggles.
They're such beautiful people inside & out too
Rise and fall and rise again!
For the record, ANDRES DE SANTA CRUZ CALAHUMANA was the name of the first indigenous president of Bolivia. SANTA CRUZ ruled between 1829 and 1939 and is remembered for a time of great prosperity. Not Santa Cruz, nor Morales were 100% pure though. Strictly specking they were MESTIZO with a strong indigenous component.
andres de santa cruz dosent sound bolivian's indigenous, his father was spaniard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrés_de_Santa_Cruz you need to read more VArlis you do not know nothing
Most people in this world are not "pure", indigenous is about a pure bloodline and our culture is always growing and changing. Thank you for coming to my tedtalk.
You cannot call "landowning families and business elite" (4:13) 2,180,000 people of the 5 million voters who chose "NO" and show the flag of a Bolivian department as if they were the ones to blame. However, evo morales had two very good mandates, but since 2011 his leadership was overshadowed by multiple cases of corruption, especially by the illegal buying and selling of votes to grant bids on Bolivian natural gas to neighboring countries, and on the alleged donations made to countries like Cuba or Venezuela, also the fight against drug trafficking was mounted, the Chapare (locality in the tropical jungle of Bolivia) is the biggest drug center of the world where the families of indigenous social movements were given lands with the exclusive use to plant "coca" giving place to entire families dedicated to the business of drug trafficking and opening the doors to *"guerrillas"* (like in cuba) heavily armed and constitutionally illegal that defend this territory from the same Bolivian police and military. The real planting of *coca* leaf for the consumption of the Bolivian population takes place in the Yungas, the rest is for the drug trade.
Evo Bolivia was a better bolivia! And Evo Morales was the best president of that nation! VIVA MAS Y EL PUEBLO!
OAS = CIA
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a men's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
so fascism is better
and how does removing power from the people help
@@nicholasmwangangi6257 Absolutely not. MAS is back and so is Morales, by the WILL of the people.
ironic coming from the guy that tried several times to get power. BTW I still like Abraham Lincoln just felt like pointing it out
thanks for publishing these videos
Love to Bolivia from Minnesota. Ive been watching this but have much yet to learn about the situation.
How about you work on getting the Somalians out off Minnesota before worrying about the rest of the world.
@@tylerkriesel8590 Somalis* and no they aren't a problem.
@@marixcx oh they aren't? What have they done for Minnesota other than send money to al Shabaab and stink up the place?
@@tylerkriesel8590 Somalis own many businesses in Minnesota ,Ohio and California
@@Notgachacreaoter ya and now they ballot harvest.
He never fell, he was pushed out by fascist right wing coup then welcomed back by the people. A wise man.
Left wing vermin can't govern
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 You have a Ukrainian flag as your profile pic? Lol The Ukraine is a failed Reichskommissariat wannabe nazi failed state.
@@UmQasaannok putler
His selfishness ruined his legacy. He wanted to be president for life at all cost, even going against his own laws....so sad.
I'd argue he wanted to work for life as the president - the people had the choice on their side, and they chose him yet again... fact. He even accepted the unfounded, biased (as shown by the CEPR study) arbitration of the OAS and forfeited his electoral win for another run but... just like in Brazil last year (where Lula was made a political prisoner on petty, unproven crimes), the corporate, fascistic elites knew they would lose the elections over and over and over again... hence the coup.
It wasn't against the law, he apealled the decision to the supreme Court and they ruled in his favor and contrary to what the video suggest, Bolivian judges are elected by the people, not appointed by the presidency.
You may not like what he did, that's perfectly understandable, but he did it through the proper democratic channels.
Many countries around the world don't have term limits anyway. If people don't like him they can vote him out, unlike the current coup líder whom nobody voted for
@@perisemiotics3204 If only he found someone with his principles and endorsed this wouldn't have occurred. Mugabe did the same in Zimbabwe, resulting in the military having legitimate reason to kick him out.
Whenever a democratically elected leader lobby to change the constitution to remain in power, just bear in mind the leader is on his way to becoming a dictator.....funny enough such leader always start as a people's person. The Bolivian president was on his way there.
@@Gaby-wi4bx It doesn't have to be.....dictators often ascend and remain in power legitimately.
"but if u know u know" is a saying that you won't understand, people who have lived under dictators will understand it.
Exactly, that happened with that false indigenous drug dealer. He cheeky made an ELECTORAL FRAUD and thought that the Bolivians were going to stay calm? The only coup d'etat was given by him, wanting to stay in power with an ILLICIT FRAUD ELECTORAL.
Greetings from Bolivia
He's back
Seems like greed ruins all..
Evo, what a fin boss
I'm from the US and I think Morales has done a lot of good. The Organization of American States sucks big time and has completely abandoned their so-called "purpose"
Im Bolivian and he’s an absolute dog shit president that has stolen god knows how many millions of dollars in money and has taken us back in progress countless of years. Please focus on your country and leave us with your dogshit take and opinión alone cuz you have NO idea what’s it like over here
This is a good summary. Looks like he did some mistake there with the term limit.
Your gonna have to change your video title hahahahaha!!!!
it is a cia coup in latin america
tale as old as time
Socialism vs capitalism
Socialism has triumphed
@@MrDgo4life Democratically as well
@@MrDgo4life Except Bolivia isn't a socialist state and it never will be
MAS back in power and Anez in a prison cell. That was rapid kharna.
Universal Basic Income today! give money to the homeless today! bolivia rocks!
Not a farm boy a COCALERO BOY
When God is with you no imperialism criminal cannot stop you
You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. He submitted to power, became the villain, and wanted to be King. He brought this on to himself.
Exactly, I am Bolivian and I live in La Paz ... I lived through all the struggle in my country to recover democracy, after the ELECTORAL FRAUD that Evo made. When the protests began, he ordered the repression of peaceful protests, with dynamite and armed guerrilla groups (Venezuelans and Cubans). Now we Bolivians are happy because that drug dealer is no longer president and Jeanine came to power. In Bolivia, the ONLY STATE COUP was given by Evo Morales when he wanted to remain in power through an ILLICIT FRAUDE ELECTORAL.
@@Miawte Just curious but do you support Añez?
@@HudaefCares No, I just support the right of democracy of my country... and Evo was violating the state's political constitution, with his corruption, 14 years ago. Jeanine is tanking the country to fair elections... so that's fine.
Man is a hero
This video was doing so well until the end. Early on it accurately brings up that unions and indigenous groups were part of the MAS, but beginning in 2011 little by little various unions and indigenous communities from the east, north and south of Bolivia started to leave him, as Evo gave privileged treatment to the communities from the west. By 2016 a majority of Bolivians were against Evo, and this coalition has only grown since.
What a load of propaganda. sweeping anything negative he did under a "he wasn't perfect" but then specially detailing the opposition's actions?
its like they taste that power and never want to leave. when you dont follow your own constitution your setting up your country for chaos and a society that does not respect laws
It’s a coup Evo was extremely popular and the right winger was pretty unknown
He was a dictator
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 Evo helped Bolivia actually take advantage of the gas boom instead of foreign investors stealing all of it and is the sole reason Bolivia is improving. I don’t know about you but a woman who wins via a freaking COUP, silenced protesters with brute force, and was later arrested for sketchy deals sounds more like a dictator to me.
@@nicodysseus2910 I saw videos of mass protest against evo
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 and I have seen far more in favor of him and against the coup. That is practically zero evidence and not worth and argument. Evo took a struggling nation that was being purged of its natural resources and brought them back into the country he’s from. He fought for his own people in country made up of 60% indigenous yet unfortunately like most of Latin America ruled by rich whites ultra rich Meatizos. (For a while at least)
@@nicodysseus2910 explain the dissidents
The rise and fall and rise of evo morales
MAS is divided now bru
Honestly the USA war on drugs has done unthinkable things to the future of this part of the world.
He is back and his party is in power.
This videos caption will change from how it lost it all and gained it back
Vive Morales
Seems like he started out good then got power hungry maybe.
No he was couped
Couped
Oh so that’s why dad was a poor farmer
Long live socialism!!!
America's coup fell apart by way of the people!
Very good video, fair but also incisive
Incomplete information
@@Miawte Yep, Evo's fall cannot be described without talk of the siege, his war on the disabled, the granting of protected land to his cocaleros and so on.
@@hellspawn3000 total fake news.
MAS has won again
sike
Bolivia could never prove that Morales engaged in fraud or anything. Thats why he is still in Mexico. The vast majority of the village are Indigenous and support him. The problem is the indigenous voice has always been surpressed.
It has been proved several times
@@franch520 No, it has not. Only several irregularities but nothing with fraud.If it did then Mexico would have turned him in......
Hi
Now is, how a president become criminal
by being elected by his people
Dictator
it is not because he wont by vote not by killing people
@@javv2007 15 years in office
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356
Yeah that's what happens when you actually develop the economy, include everyone in its growth and remove the remnants of Spanish colonialism, you keep winning elections.
@@Atilla_the_Fun why did thousands protest him in 2019?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 tens of thousands more protested in favour of MAS
I got to say Morralis should have found a successor!
Lithium
I wanted to watch this video before today but couldn't because i was so saddened by the u.s. led coup that took this beautiful man out of office. am so happy MAS won the election and it wasn't contested and blood was not shed. I wish everyone would take the time to read the constitution of bolivia. It is availabel on line. i have a copy i bought in english. we could use a little of me morales' wisdom here , but that won't happen till we hit rock bottom in the usa. pretty soon we must.
Corrupt
John 3.16-21
There's your socialism.
Call it what it is. A coup
There was no progress stop lyingggggggg
LMAO
mmmm. l feel a propagandistyc tone here. l think u r trying to miss imform the ppl
We must go beyond politics poverty and war. Please look up "The Venus Project"!
You are getting it done.
Update csso headn to yous
Bolivia wasn't even a country before Europeans arrived
Oh god I have a feeling this girl is just as bad or worse
The indigenous part isn't true, he barely speaks any other language than Spanish. Besides, the very first indigenous president was Andres de Santa Cruz y Calahumana, son of an Inca princess, back in the 19th century.
Speaking only spanish doesn't disqualify you from being indigenous 🤦🏽♂️
I mean...that only shows that bolivia leads a lot more indigenous leadership to undo Spanish colonialism
Stender h o f
these messed up me3s is ours, shlda dlvd the payments would hvbnmd.im annoyed you v hd blke on fields that I ain't said ta grzz be nàaaa I'm mas an dey ondaway so what u wandoo
First comment 😬
this video is so biased! Jesus, who is that American woman talking nonsense?
It’s true though.
Fifth