Evo Morales

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  Bolivian Ex President Evo Morales Barred From Running For 2025 Re-Election

  Bolivia's Constitutional Court has disqualified former president Evo Morales from running for re-election in 2025, reversing a ruling that had let him seek a fourth term in 2019.

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  Mexico Says It Will Offer Asylum To Bolivia President Evo Morales

  Mexico on Sunday said it was offering asylum to Bolivia's President Evo Morales after 20 government officials and lawmakers had sought refuge at its embassy in La Paz.

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  Bolivia President Evo Morales Resigns After Losing Backing Of Security Forces

  Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday, caving in following three weeks of sometimes-violent protests over his disputed re-election after the army and police withdrew their backing.

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  Bolivia Opens $7 Million Museum Honouring President Morales

  Bolivia on Thursday opened a $7 million museum dedicated to President Evo Morales and indigenous peoples in Mr Morales's birthplace of Orinoca high up in the deserts of the Bolivian antiplano.

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  Morales Facing Defeat In Key Bolivia Vote: Partial Results

  Partial results Monday indicated Bolivian President Evo Morales faced defeat in a referendum on seeking a fourth term in power, but he sat tight pending results from his rural strongholds.

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  Bolivians Limit Leftist President's Record Rule: Reports

  Bolivians on Sunday rejected leftist President Evo Morales' bid to seek a fourth term and potentially extend his presidency until 2025, local media projected.

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  Bolivia's Evo Morales Marks 10 Years In Office

  Bolivian President Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous head of state, marked a record-setting 10 years in office Thursday with an ancient ceremonial rite in the pre-Incan city of Tiahuanaco.

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  Bolivian 'Communist Crucifix' Gift to Pope Francis Surprises Vatican

  The Vatican acknowledged it was taken by surprise to discover that a wooden hammer and sickle sculpture with a figure of a crucified Christ gifted to the Pope in Bolivia was not commissioned by leftist president Evo Morales but designed by a priest killed in 1980.

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  Pope Francis Slams Consumerism at Mass in Poor Bolivia

  Pope Francis, a champion of the poor and social justice, on Thursday called on a million faithful to reject today's consumer society, at an open-air mass in Bolivia, South America's poorest nation.

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  Pope Takes Message of Inclusion to Bolivia

  Pope Francis greeted Bolivians with a message of inclusion Wednesday, a central theme of his three-nation tour to his home continent, as he arrived in South America's poorest nation.

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  23 Dead, 57 Missing in Chilean Desert Floods

  The death toll from devastating flash floods in Chile's normally arid north rose to 23 today after five bodies were found, and the number of missing surged to 57, authorities said.

• Bolivia Adds Five New Lines to World's Highest Cable Cars

  Bolivia will invest $450 million to build five new lines for its innovative cable-car system, the highest in the world, President Evo Morales said Thursday.

• Bolivia's Morales Wins Reelection With 61 Percent: Official

  President Evo Morales swept to a third term with 61 percent of the vote, electoral officials said on Saturday in confirming the result.

• Bolivia's President Morales Declares Victory in Election

  Bolivian President Evo Morales declared a landslide re-election victory on Sunday, hailing it as a triumph for socialist reforms that have cut poverty and vastly expanded the state's role in the booming economy.

• Bolivia's Morales Elected to Third Term: Exit Polls

  Bolivian President Evo Morales was elected to a third term on Sunday with more than 60 percent of the vote, avoiding a runoff against a divided opposition, exit polls said.