Biography of evo morales. Evo Morales, Indian President of Bolivia Morales Evo
Morales, Juan Evo
Juan Evo Morales Aima(Spanish) Juan Evo Morales Ayma, R. October 26 in Orinoca, Oruro), better known as or even simply Evo- President of Bolivia. An Aymara, he is the first indigenous American to lead Bolivia in over 400 years since the Spanish colonization.
Morales is calling for a constitutional assembly to reform the country. He also proposes the creation of a new hydrocarbon law that would ensure that 50% of the income remains in Bolivia, although MAS has expressed interest in the complete nationalization of the gas and oil industry. As a result, Evo Morales chose a compromise path, supporting the nationalization of gas companies, but not renouncing international cooperation in the industry.
Morales described the US-promoted Free Trade Area of America (FTAA) as "an agreement to legalize the colonization of the Americas."
Evo Morales expressed his admiration for native Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Mencha, as well as Fidel Castro, the latter for opposing the US.
Morales' stance on drugs can be summarized as "coca leaf is not a drug". Indeed, chewing coca leaves has always been a tradition of the indigenous people (Aymara and Quechua) and these leaves are considered sacred by them. The narcotic effect of coca leaves is less than that of the caffeine found in coffee, and for many poor Bolivians they are the only way to work an entire day, which for some of them may be fifteen or eighteen hours. The indigenous practice of chewing coca leaves is over a thousand years old and has never caused drug problems in their society. Therefore, Evo Morales believes that the problem of cocaine should be solved on the side of consumption, and not by the destruction of coca plantations.
Heads of State of Latin America
There are many disagreements between the Evo Morales administration and the United States over drug laws and how the two countries cooperate, but officials from both countries have nonetheless expressed a desire to work against drug trafficking. Sean McCormack of the US State Department reaffirmed support for Bolivia's counter-narcotics policy, while Morales stated: "There will be no cocaine, no drug trafficking, but there will be coca." He also said that the absence of coca would mean the absence of the Quechua and the Aymaras, two indigenous groups in Bolivia.
The future government of Evo Morales received the congratulations and political support of most of the region's presidents and several European leaders. On the other hand, the White House hinted at the possible illegitimacy of Morales's election victory, making a cold statement congratulating him on his "visible" victory.
Plans to assassinate Evo Morales
On April 17, the Bolivian media reported the exposure and neutralization of a "terrorist group" that planned the physical destruction of President Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera. During a shootout between police and intruders at the Las Americas Hotel in Santa Cruz, three members of the terrorist group were killed and two arrested. Among the terrorists are a Romanian, a Hungarian, an Irishman, a Bolivian and a Colombian, which indicates the possibility of assassins being involved in this plan. Morales himself, who was in Venezuela that day, accused the right-wing opposition of attempting a coup.
The victory was so impressive that the political establishment of Bolivia did not even try to challenge the election results, much less prevent Morales from coming to power, who is ready to carry out the most radical transformations in the country.
"I myself still hardly believe that I became the president of the country," Evo Morales admitted in an interview with reporters.
And he is not lying. It is really hard to imagine that an Aymara Indian, who was born and raised in a mountainous outback, could make his way into the presidential palace in La Paz.
Evo Morales doesn't like being called "Mr. President" and thinks "Comrade Evo" is the best fit for him. He says that this concept is eternal.
Comrade Evo, or, as he is also called in Bolivia, El Evo, likes to remember that before entering politics, he was first a shepherd, then he burned bricks, then he was a baker, and then he started growing coca.
Morales was born on October 26, 1959 into a poor peasant family, in the department of Oruro, 400 kilometers from the capital of Bolivia.
“The only thing in our house was a sack of corn. My mother used it to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for us. On holidays, she gave us some dried meat,” the president recalls about his childhood.
Parents were not particularly involved in raising their son. This is not accepted in simple Indian families, where education replaces personal example, and such moral principles as "do not steal", "do not lie", "never show your weakness" enjoy special reverence. Despite the difficulties and hardships experienced in childhood, Morales considers these years to be the best.
With special warmth, he recalls the first time he went with his father to the city to sell farmed llamas. It was in 1971, when he was not even twelve years old. The road took three weeks, we had to spend the night where we had to.
“Once we were caught on the road by heavy rain. From what was at hand, my father quickly built something similar to a hut, where we climbed and spent the whole night. At the beginning it was scary, it seemed that the streams of water would take us away, but then we got used to it," says Morales with sadness in his eyes.
Often as a boy, he grazed cattle in the mountains, slept in the open air and watched thousands of stars in the night sky.
"It was a great time. Then I lived in a thousand-star hotel, and as president, I can only afford a five-star hotel," Morales jokes.
About his education, he speaks almost like Maxim Gorky: "I went through the university of life."
Rural teachers spoke of Morales as a capable student, but he could not get a complete secondary education. His family moved to the city of Oruro, from where he was called up for military service.
In the army, Morales played the trumpet in the regimental band, and, according to colleagues, pretty well. He retained his love for music and football to this day.
In the early 80s, Morales left to work in the mountainous region of Chapare, which is famous for coca plantations. After some time, he becomes the recognized leader of the coca growers' union.
Coca is the raw material for the production of the drug cocaine, but the Indians of the highlands of Bolivia, as well as other Latin American countries, have been using coca leaves as a food additive for centuries. The leaves are chewed, and tea is brewed from them to increase the tone and resistance to altitude sickness. The content of the drug in the leaves is negligible.
Many believe that it was the coca leaf that played a decisive role in the fate and career of Morales. During the election campaign, he promised voters, most of whom are peasants, to legalize the cultivation of coca. Their votes provided Morales with a landslide victory in the presidential election.
“This leaf shaped me as a person, as a politician, and now as a president. Therefore, I cannot betray him by agreeing to the demands of the Americans to destroy crops, I cannot betray millions of our peasants, for whom the coca leaf is sacred and has nothing to do with drugs," Evo Morales said in an interview.
In 1995, Evo Morales created the "Movement to Socialism" and successfully participated in the elections to the National Congress.
His success in the December 2005 presidential election was largely facilitated by a pronounced anti-American campaign program and promises to nationalize the gas industry.
True, in recent years, especially after an international tour of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, Evo Morales in public speeches has become much less likely to use harsh expressions against his opponents.
Thus, in his first interview with the Qatari satellite channel Al Jazeera, Morales said: "The only terrorist I know is Bush. His policy of military intervention, like the one we see in Iraq, is state terrorism."
Then he softened his position, and now he believes that it is possible to conduct a dialogue with the United States.
"I am ready to conduct a dialogue with the United States and do not feel any fear of the northern neighbor. If the empire wants to support us, then I do not mind: let them support us," Morales said.
Last week, the new Bolivian president announced the priorities for the work of the future government.
"One of the central activities of the future administration will be ensuring economic stability and fighting corruption," Morales said.
The newly elected president of Bolivia, unexpectedly for the political elite, came out in defense of private property. Previously, he has repeatedly stated that he intends to nationalize and even expropriate energy enterprises.
"The new Bolivian government will protect private property and foreign investment. We are also ready to provide foreign companies with guarantees for the right to return their investments," Morales said.
The only condition Western companies must agree to is a fair distribution of profits, he said.
One of the first steps of the new president will be to revise the price of gas supplied to neighboring countries. Morales intends to raise prices, leaving them the same only for residents of Bolivia. In addition, it is planned to significantly increase income tax rates for individuals with high incomes.
The country's foreign policy will also change. Morales does not hide his sympathy for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro. It is no coincidence that he made his first foreign visit to Cuba.
The indigenous people of Bolivia have high hopes for their president.
“With the coming of Evo to power, the 500-year-old shameful page of the rule of the white population ended. Now a new era is beginning in the history of our state, when at last we were able to peacefully make an Indian revolution,” Sanchez Alvaro said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
He is also an Aymaru Indian, and he has his own business in La Paz. The Alvaro family is engaged in the manufacture of souvenirs for sale in the local market.
"In any case, it will not be worse than we lived. We believe in El Evo," said Sanchez Alvaro.
The leader of the radical left "Movement towards Socialism" Evo Morales won 53.7% of the vote in the last presidential elections in Bolivia.
The victory was so impressive that the political establishment of Bolivia did not even try to challenge the election results, much less prevent Morales from coming to power, who is ready to carry out the most radical transformations in the country.
"I myself still hardly believe that I became the president of the country," Evo Morales admitted in an interview with reporters.
And he is not lying. It is really hard to imagine that an Aymara Indian, who was born and raised in a mountainous outback, could make his way into the presidential palace in La Paz.
Evo Morales doesn't like being called "Mr. President" and thinks "Comrade Evo" is the best fit for him. He says that this concept is eternal.
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Comrade Evo, or, as he is also called in Bolivia, El Evo, likes to remember that before entering politics, he was first a shepherd, then he burned bricks, then he was a baker, and then he started growing coca.
Morales was born on October 26, 1959 into a poor peasant family, in the department of Oruro, 400 kilometers from the capital of Bolivia.
“The only thing in our house was a sack of corn. My mother used it to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for us. On holidays, she gave us some dried meat,” the president recalls about his childhood.
Parents were not particularly involved in raising their son. This is not accepted in simple Indian families, where education replaces personal example, and such moral principles as "do not steal", "do not lie", "never show your weakness" enjoy special reverence. Despite the difficulties and hardships experienced in childhood, Morales considers these years to be the best.
With special warmth, he recalls the first time he went with his father to the city to sell farmed llamas. It was in 1971, when he was not even twelve years old. The road took three weeks, we had to spend the night where we had to.
“Once we were caught on the road by heavy rain. From what was at hand, my father quickly built something similar to a hut, where we climbed and spent the whole night. At the beginning it was scary, it seemed that the streams of water would take us away, but then we got used to it," says Morales with sadness in his eyes.
Often as a boy, he grazed cattle in the mountains, slept in the open air and watched thousands of stars in the night sky.
"It was a great time. Then I lived in a thousand-star hotel, and as president, I can only afford a five-star hotel," Morales jokes.
About his education, he speaks almost like Maxim Gorky: "I went through the university of life."
Rural teachers spoke of Morales as a capable student, but he could not get a complete secondary education. His family moved to the city of Oruro, from where he was called up for military service.
In the army, Morales played the trumpet in the regimental band, and, according to colleagues, pretty well. He retained his love for music and football to this day.
In the early 80s, Morales left to work in the mountainous region of Chapare, which is famous for coca plantations. After some time, he becomes the recognized leader of the coca growers' union.
Coca is the raw material for the production of the drug cocaine, but the Indians of the highlands of Bolivia, as well as other Latin American countries, have been using coca leaves as a food additive for centuries. The leaves are chewed, and tea is brewed from them to increase the tone and resistance to altitude sickness. The content of the drug in the leaves is negligible.
Many believe that it was the coca leaf that played a decisive role in the fate and career of Morales. During the election campaign, he promised voters, most of whom are peasants, to legalize the cultivation of coca. Their votes provided Morales with a landslide victory in the presidential election.
“This leaf shaped me as a person, as a politician, and now as a president. Therefore, I cannot betray him by agreeing to the demands of the Americans to destroy crops, I cannot betray millions of our peasants, for whom the coca leaf is sacred and has nothing to do with drugs," Evo Morales said in an interview.
In 1995, Evo Morales created the "Movement to Socialism" and successfully participated in the elections to the National Congress.
His success in the December 2005 presidential election was largely facilitated by a pronounced anti-American campaign program and promises to nationalize the gas industry.
True, in recent years, especially after an international tour of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, Evo Morales in public speeches has become much less likely to use harsh expressions against his opponents.
Thus, in his first interview with the Qatari satellite channel Al Jazeera, Morales said: "The only terrorist I know is Bush. His policy of military intervention, like the one we see in Iraq, is state terrorism."
Then he softened his position, and now he believes that it is possible to conduct a dialogue with the United States.
"I am ready to conduct a dialogue with the United States and do not feel any fear of the northern neighbor. If the empire wants to support us, then I do not mind: let them support us," Morales said.
Last week, the new Bolivian president announced the priorities for the work of the future government.
"One of the central activities of the future administration will be ensuring economic stability and fighting corruption," Morales said.
The newly elected president of Bolivia, unexpectedly for the political elite, came out in defense of private property. Previously, he has repeatedly stated that he intends to nationalize and even expropriate energy enterprises.
"The new Bolivian government will protect private property and foreign investment. We are also ready to provide foreign companies with guarantees for the right to return their investments," Morales said.
The only condition Western companies must agree to is a fair distribution of profits, he said.
One of the first steps of the new president will be to revise the price of gas supplied to neighboring countries. Morales intends to raise prices, leaving them the same only for residents of Bolivia. In addition, it is planned to significantly increase income tax rates for individuals with high incomes.
The country's foreign policy will also change. Morales does not hide his sympathy for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro. It is no coincidence that he made his first foreign visit to Cuba.
The indigenous people of Bolivia have high hopes for their president.
“With the coming of Evo to power, the 500-year-old shameful page of the rule of the white population ended. Now a new era is beginning in the history of our state, when at last we were able to peacefully make an Indian revolution,” Sanchez Alvaro said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
He is also an Aymaru Indian, and he has his own business in La Paz. The Alvaro family is engaged in the manufacture of souvenirs for sale in the local market.
"In any case, it will not be worse than we lived. We believe in El Evo," said Sanchez Alvaro.
The defeat of Evo Morales in the referendum that would see him change the constitution to secure his fourth re-election in 2019 is good news for Bolivia and the culture of freedom. It fits into a democratic process that is undermining the foundations of demagogic populism in Latin America. His milestones are the victory of Mauricio Macri in Argentina over the candidate nominated by Ms. Kirchner; Rafael Correa's announcement that he will not run in the next presidential election in Ecuador; the crushing defeat (by 70% of the vote) of the regime of Nicolás Maduro in the elections to the National Assembly of Venezuela and the growing discrediting of Dilma Rousseff and her mentor, former President Lula, in Brazil in connection with the economic failure and scandals around the oil company Petrobras, which also predict the failure of the Workers' Party in the next elections.
Unlike the populist governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador and Brazil, whose demagogic policies led to the collapse of the economy in these countries, Evo Morales' economic policy was characterized as successful. But the statistics don't tell the whole truth about Bolivia's incredibly favorable ten-year period thanks to high commodity prices. But as soon as they began to fall, economic growth stopped in the country, it is shaken by corruption scandals.
This partly explains the sharp downgrade of Evo Morales. It is interesting to note that during the referendum, almost all the main Bolivian cities voted against him and, if it were not for the rural areas, the most remote and least cultural, where it is much easier for the authorities to rig the results of the vote, Morales' defeat would have been even more crushing.
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El Pais 07.07.2015 How long will this peculiar ruler blame "American imperialism" and "liberals" for all his failures? The latest Morales scandal has to do with China, not the US. His now-imprisoned ex-girlfriend Gabriela Zapata, who gave birth to his child in 2007, held a senior position in a Chinese company that was awarded large and unjustified road construction and other public works contracts totaling over $500 million. The blatant abuse of power in the distribution of these illicit contracts, described by the courageous journalist Carlos Valverde, shocked the country, and the president's excuses and denials only increased suspicion of his unscrupulousness. The Bolivian public should be aware that this is only a very recent case of corruption that has resurfaced many times over the past decade, although thanks to Evo's popularity it has been hushed up. Let's hope that this fading popularity will no longer be able to mislead the Bolivian society, which supported the head of state and the regime that is the embodiment of the most unbridled populism.I would also like to believe that the world community, like the Bolivians, will stop showing this disposition, which is discriminatory and racist in its essence, especially in Europe, in relation to “the first Indian who became President of Bolivia. This is one of the many false claims about his official biography that have been made public throughout his international travels. Why discriminatory and racist? Yes, because the French, Italians, Spaniards and Germans, who greeted the funny president at official meetings without ties with exclamations of approval, would never greet the leader of their country if he spoke the same nonsense as Evo Morales (for example, about that there are so many homosexuals in Europe because of the unnecessarily high consumption of chicken meat). But, in their opinion, this illiterate character is quite suitable for Bolivia. Evo Morales' applause reminded me of Günter Grass advising Latin Americans to "follow Cuba's example" but in Germany and other European countries he was no longer pro-communist but pro-social-democracy. Approaching the first and third worlds with different assessments is just that very discrimination and racism.
Those who believe that Evo Morales is quite suitable for Bolivia (but not for France or Spain) have a completely wrong idea about this highland country. I love this country very much, because there, in Cochabamba, I spent nine years of my childhood, of which I have the brightest memories. Bolivia is not a poor, but an impoverished country. Like many Latin American republics, it has become impoverished as a result of the mismanagement and misguided policies of its leaders, many of whom are as illiterate demagogues as Evo Morales.
They failed to properly use the richest human and natural resources, allowing a small handful of oligarchs to live in luxury, while huge masses of Quechua and Aymara Indians, as well as mestizos, who form the basis of the middle class, vegetated in poverty. Evo Morales and his entourage did not contribute to the economic development of Bolivia in any way, although they entered into trade agreements with Brazil to develop gas fields, received huge loans from China for the construction of giant facilities (for many of them a feasibility study was not even developed). Such actions greatly threaten the future of the country, and the policy of nationalization, the strangulation of private enterprise and the glorification of class (often turning into racial) struggle causes an increase in social violence with all the ensuing consequences.
There are courageous, realistic and respected politicians in Bolivia (I know some of them). Despite the most difficult conditions in which they had to act, exposed to defamation in the media, risking being imprisoned or being expelled from the country, they defended democracy, trampled freedom, opposed arbitrariness, demagogy, corruption, rash and erroneous steps of Evo Morales and his a team of ideologists led by the vice-president, the Marxist Álvaro García Linera. It is these politicians, and tens of thousands of Bolivians like them, who represent the true face of Bolivia. They want to see their country not as a spectacular popular print, but as a modern, free, prosperous and truly democratic state, which is now Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Peru and a number of other Latin American countries. They managed to free themselves, or are about to do so, from rulers like the Kirchners, Hugo Chávez and his follower Nicolas Maduro, the vague Rafael Correa, Lula and Dilma Rousseff, who dragged them or continue to drag them to the abyss.
The defeat of Evo Morales in the referendum held on Sunday, February 21, gives great hope to Bolivia, and now it is only necessary for the opposition to maintain the unity (unfortunately weak) that emerged during the popular vote. If a split occurs again in its ranks, it will be a royal gift for the fading star Evo Morales. If the opposition remains as united and active as it has been in recent weeks, then Bolivia will be the next country to free itself from populism and regain freedom.
Evo Morales Evo Morales
80th President of Bolivia since January 22, 2006
Vice President: Alvaro Garcia Linera
Forerunner: Veltse, Eduardo Rodriguez
Religion: Catholicism
Birth: 26 October 1959
village Isallavi, Orinoca, Oruro, Bolivia
Father: Dionisio Morales Choque
Mother: Maria Mamani
Spouse: Not married
Party: "Movement towards socialism"
Juan Evo Morales Aima(Spanish Juan Evo Morales Ayma; born October 26, 1959, Orinoca, Oruro) - President of Bolivia. An Aymara, he is the first native American to rule Bolivia in over 400 years since the Spanish colonization.
Morales was born into a poor peasant family. He recalled his childhood this way: “In our house, the only thing that was there was a bag of corn. From it, my mother cooked breakfast, lunch, and dinner for us. On holidays she gave us some jerky.”
Rural teachers spoke of Morales as a capable student, but he never received a complete secondary education. His family moved to the city of Oruro, from where he was called up for military service. In the army, Morales was a trumpeter in the regimental band. In the early 1980s, he went to work in the mountainous region of Chapare, which is famous for coca plantations. After some time, he became the leader of the coca growers' union.
In 1995, Evo Morales created the Movimiento al Socialismo (Spanish: Movimiento al Socialismo) party, the Spanish acronym for which - MAS - means "more". She successfully participated in the elections to the National Congress.
In the 2002 presidential election Evo Morales took 2nd place, which was a surprise for the traditional Bolivian parties. This and his indigenous origins made him an instant celebrity throughout Latin America. Morales said he owed some of his success to comments directed against him by US Ambassador to Bolivia Manuel Rocha, which, according to Morales, helped to "awaken the consciousness of the people."
Morales He was elected President of Bolivia on December 18, 2005. About 54 percent of voters voted for him with an 84 percent turnout. Morales took office on January 22, 2006. His success in the presidential election was facilitated by an anti-American campaign program and promises to nationalize the gas industry. In addition, he promised voters, most of whom are peasants, to legalize the cultivation of coca. Evo Morales said in an interview: “This leaflet shaped me as a person, as a politician, and now as a president. Therefore, I cannot betray him by agreeing to the demands of the Americans for the destruction of crops, I cannot betray the millions of our peasants, for whom the coca leaf is sacred and has nothing to do with drugs.
Two and a half years later, on August 14, 2008, at the request of the opposition, a referendum was held to recall the president from his post. To the dismay of the right-wing opposition, Morales received the support of 67 percent of the voters and remained in office.
In December 2009, the next presidential elections were held. Evo Morales won with 63% of the vote.
The ideology of Evo Morales
Evo Morales He is a political leftist and leads a movement of Bolivian cocalero peasants (coca growers) who are opposing US government efforts to eradicate coca from Chapare province in southeastern Bolivia. Evo Morales stated:
The worst enemy of humanity is capitalism. He is what provokes uprisings like ours, protest against the system, against the neoliberal model, which is the representation of wild capitalism. If the whole world does not recognize this reality - that states do not provide even minimal health care, education and nutrition - then fundamental human rights will be violated every day.
Evo Morales also adheres to environmental principles in relation to the conduct of the economy and sees a way out of the coming catastrophic climate shocks in the rational and deliberate use of resources:
Humanity is faced with an alternative: to follow the capitalist path leading to death, or to live in harmony with nature. We must make a choice: capitalism will perish or Mother Earth will perish. Developed countries plunder natural resources, poison rivers and lakes in search of maximum profit.
Evo Morales also stated:
... the ideological principles of the organization, anti-imperialist and opposed to neo-liberalism, are clear and unchanged, but its members have yet to translate them into reality.
Morales calls for the convening of a constitutional assembly to reform the country. He also proposes the creation of a new hydrocarbon law that would ensure that 50% of the income remains in Bolivia, although MAS has expressed interest in the complete nationalization of the gas and oil industry. As a result, Evo Morales chose a compromise path, supporting the nationalization of gas companies, but not renouncing international cooperation in the industry.
Morales described the US-promoted Free Trade Area of America (FTAA) as "an agreement to legalize the colonization of the Americas."
Evo Morales admired the native Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú, as well as Fidel Castro.
Morales' stance on drugs can be summarized as "coca leaf is not a drug". Chewing coca leaves has always been traditional for the indigenous people (Aymara and Quechua), and these leaves are considered sacred by them. The narcotic effect of coca leaves is less than that of the caffeine found in coffee, and for many poor Bolivians, they are the only way to work a full day, which for some of them can be fifteen or eighteen hours. The indigenous practice of chewing coca leaves is over a thousand years old and has never caused drug problems in their society. Therefore, Evo Morales believes that the problem of cocaine should be solved on the side of consumption, and not by the destruction of coca plantations.
Heads of State of Latin America
between administration Evo Morales and the United States, there are many disagreements about drug laws and how the two countries cooperate, but officials from both countries have nonetheless expressed a desire to work against drug trafficking. Sean McCormack of the US State Department reaffirmed support for Bolivia's counter-narcotics policy, while Morales stated: "There will be no cocaine, no drug trafficking, but there will be coca." He also said that the absence of coca would mean the absence of the Quechua and the Aymara, two indigenous groups in Bolivia.
Future government of Evo Morales received the congratulations and political support of most of the region's presidents and several European leaders. On the other hand, the White House hinted at the possible illegitimacy of Morales' election victory, coldly congratulating him on his "visible" victory.
Plans to assassinate Evo Morales
On April 17, 2009, the Bolivian media reported on the exposure and neutralization of a "terrorist group" that planned the physical destruction of President Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. During a shootout between police and intruders at the Las Americas Hotel in Santa Cruz, three members of the terrorist group were killed and two were arrested. Among the terrorists are a Romanian, a Hungarian, an Irishman, a Bolivian and a Colombian, which indicates the possibility of assassins being involved in this plan. Morales himself, who was in Venezuela that day, accused the right-wing opposition of attempting a coup.
International scandal at Vienna airport
July 3, 2013 aircraft Evo Morales«Dassault Falcon 900EX» Board number - FAB 001 The flag of Bolivia flew from Sheremetyevo to Lisbon. During the flight, France, Portugal, Italy and Spain refused to allow the plane to fly through their airspace due to suspicions that former CIA officer Edward Snowden could be on board, who was thus taken out of the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. Morales' plane landed in Austria at the Vienna airport. After landing, an attempt was made to search the aircraft in violation of the Vienna Convention. Morales was kept at the Vienna airport for almost 12 hours, he called such treatment by European colleagues a historical mistake. Snowden was not on board. On July 4, 2013, Morales' plane landed safely in La Paz. In connection with this scandal Morales demanded an apology from European countries. Spain refused to apologize to Morales, while the French authorities apologized to him for the incident.
In connection with the incident, on July 5 in Cochabamba (Bolivia), an emergency UNASUR summit was held, in which 12 Latin American presidents took part. In a statement, UNASUR expressed outrage at the incident with Morales' plane, which endangered the safety of the head of Bolivia and his staff. UNASUR demanded that European states reveal the details of what happened.
On July 8, a rally was held in Bolivia demanding the closure of the US embassy.
Evo Morales family
He is not married and has never been officially married.
