How Bolivia’s leader went from adoration to seeking asylum in just over 10 years

Evo Morales is in hiding, ousted from the presidency and abandoned by most of his allies and countrymen — his tenure as Latin America’s longest-serving head of state suddenly cut short.

His passionate defense of the growers — and of coca leaf farming as an intrinsic part of Bolivia’s indigenous culture — led to clashes with the country’s conservative and overwhelmingly white political elite. And he sought time and again to hold onto power. By 2016, when he had already spent 10 years in office, a majority of Bolivians decided Morales had overstayed his welcome, voting in a legally binding referendum to prevent him from running for another term. His party took the case to Bolivia’s Constitutional Court, which ruled that term limits would violate the president’s human rights.

Prominent leftist leaders in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador formed a close relationship with Morales during Latin America’s “pink tide” of the 2000s, and they professed their unwavering support. On Monday, the foreign minister of Mexico, which is led by a leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that Morales had accepted an offer of asylum.

DatelineSBS Yet another U.S backed military coup.

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DatelineSBS abandoned by his countrymen? What about the 47% who voted for him?

DatelineSBS Even SBS fail to use the correct terminology COUP!!!! A USA backed. FAR RIGHT!!!!! anti- poor anti- indigenous COUP!!! Stop fucking around

DatelineSBS It’s a coup.

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