Tag: Evo Morales Indian Leader

• Monday, January 20th 2025 - 06:22 UTC

  Evo says Bolivian gov't advised doctors against treating him

  

  Former Bolivian President Evo Morales hosted his weekly broadcast show from home Sunday and insisted he was banned from seeking proper medical help for his condition. Last week, an arrest warrant was issued against him for contempt of court after he dodged two subpoenas citing health issues.

• Friday, October 4th 2024 - 09:41 UTC

  Arrest warrant against Evo Morales issued and repealed

  

  Bolivia's Judiciary issued an arrest warrant against former President Evo Morales in connection with a human trafficking case involving a minor but the measure was halted later, despite which the indigenous leader claimed he felt persecuted and threatened.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 20:37 UTC

  Another court case and six more months of jail for ex interim Bolivian president

  

  Bolivian ex-president Jeanine Añez will have to spend at least a whole year in jail since a Judge this week extended her preventive imprisonment for another six months when she is about to complete her first half-year of reclusion in a La Paz detention center.

• Monday, December 16th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Bolivarian countries call Evo's departure from presidency “a coup d'état”

  

  Dignitaries of several Latin America and Caribbean countries Saturday criticized the uprising that led the resignation of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia in - which was dubbed a “coup d'état” in a joint statement in Havanna on the closing day of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) summit to celebrate the grouping's 17th anniversary.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Bolivia has interim president, Morales from Mexico pledges he will return: situation remains highly fragile

  

  The head of Bolivia’s Senate, Jeanine Añez, took office as interim president on Tuesday as former leader Evo Morales pledged to keep up his political fight from exile in Mexico after resigning in what he has alleged was a coup.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolivia votes on Sunday, but Morales 13-year in office seems to have lost its magic

  

  Bolivia's Evo Morales will seek a controversial fourth term as president on Sunday when voters head to the polls in what is expected to be a tight race for the once-popular left-wing leader. Morales is already the longest-serving president in Bolivian history, having been at the helm for 13 years, and its first indigenous president.

• Thursday, November 30th 2017 - 09:07 UTC

  Bolivian court rules Evo Morales can bid for a fourth term, despite voters' rejection in a referendum

  

  Bolivia's highest court cleared the way for President Evo Morales to run for a fourth term in 2019 despite voters' rejection of such a move in a referendum last year.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2016 - 10:42 UTC

  Bolivia: Evo Morales admits he is not ready to go home in 2019

  

  Despite what most Bolivians voted for on February 21, that is against the incumbent president being eligible to run for yet another re-election,

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:10 UTC

  Morales is sworn in for a third period promises to reduce poverty to 8% by 2020

  

  President of Bolivia Evo Morales on Thursday was sworn in for the third time as his country's head of state, and set as his primary objective reduce further poverty levels up to the end of his term in 2020.

• Thursday, January 22nd 2015 - 05:38 UTC

  Morales invested as Indian leader in Andean ritual calls to defend Mother Earth Pachamama

  

  Bolivian President Evo Morales called Wednesday for a halt to “the crazy race of destroying the Earth in the name of development” after being invested as Indian leader in a ritual at the pre-Colombian ruins of Tiahuanaco, located some 71 kilometers from La Paz.