Evo Morales sought to continue to power after 14 years as President of Bolivia, but eventually resigned when protests broke out.

Morales in October decided to run for a fourth term, after 14 years as the Bolivian president and became one of the longest-standing leaders in Latin America. He did this by a controversial decision by the Constitutional Court, which removed the term limit from the president.

However, everything with Morales was not "smooth sailing" as before, when Carlos Mesa, Morales' main rival, thought that the election results in October were dishonest and urged people to pour down the road. love. After three weeks of unrest, Morales on November 10 broadcast a resignation message on television, ending the political career of the first indigenous leader in Bolivia.

Evo Morales was born into a family of Aymara tribe living in a remote village west of Oruro. He showed leadership early on when he became leader of the Cocalero union (coca growers in Bolivia). The coca plant, a raw material for cocaine production, has been grown in the Andes Mountains for thousands of years for religious and medicinal purposes.

When Morales first ran for president in 2002, he pledged to serve the interests of indigenous tribal groups in Bolivia, who have suffered and suffered from discrimination for centuries. Having failed his first campaign, he did not give up and eventually won his second presidential campaign in December 2005.

As soon as he took office, he introduced a new constitution, formally declaring Bolivia to be a "multi-ethnic" and secular nation, in order to better demonstrate the role of dozens of ethnic minorities in Bolivia. .

He also legalized coca cultivation and introduced measures to control the sale of the tree, despite pressure from the United States to eliminate all coca fields in Bolivia.

US officials have accused Morales of not trying to stop cocaine production and trade, while the Bolivian President said he was still trying to stop large-scale cocaine production, allowing only small quantities of coca to be planted because religious and cultural purposes.

Tensions with the United States lasted during Morales's rule. In 2008, Morales deported US Ambassador Philip Goldberg for allegedly plotting against the government and suspending the activities of the US Drug Administration (DEA) in Bolivia. In 2013, he also ousted the US Agency for International Development (USAID), accusing it of supporting the opposition.

One of the leaders of the "pink tide" movement in South America in the early 2000s, Morales cut his salary and cabinet members shortly after taking office. He then began the process of restructuring the oil industry. Increasing tax revenues allowed Bolivia to boost public investment and contribute to the country's foreign exchange reserves.

The Morales government has invested heavily in public works projects and social programs to combat poverty. Since his inauguration, the poverty rate has fallen from 38% in 2006 to 17% in 2018. However, critics say that in Bolivia over the past two years, poverty has increased again.

Morales' policies have worried and opposed Bolivian middle class, arguing that he was "too fierce". Morales' opponents mainly come from the wealthy Santa Cruz plains in the east, which is considered to be Bolivia's economic center. They criticized him for failing to handle corruption, a Bolivian primary concern in the October general election.

One of Morales's biggest failures was failing to protect the disputed waters with neighboring Chile. Bolivia lost its access to the Pacific in 1884 after the war with Chile and subsequently attempted to regain it.

However, in October 2018, the International Court of Justice ruled in favor of Chile in disputes over the sea. This was considered a major defeat for Morales, who assured the Bolivian people that the victory was "very close".

Morales regularly speaks at international conferences on the environment, where he asks nations to respect "Mother Earth" more. However, he did not show success in balancing the environment and economic development.

One of his political scandals was related to a plan to build a major road through the Amazon, which was opposed by Bolivians who thought it would "pave the way" for logging activities and illegal land appropriation.

Large-scale protests led to violent clashes, forcing the Bolivian government to cancel the project in 2011. Morales "gave the green light" to the project in 2017, after he said words External criticism is a form of "colonial-style environmentalism".

Morales in early 2019 faced a series of protests around wildfires that erupted in eastern Bolivia. Protesters asked him to cancel a decree allowing "controlled burning" to allow farmers to expand their farming areas.

Although the Bolivian constitution stipulates that a president can hold only two consecutive terms, Morales in 2014 changed the constitution to run for a third election.

In 2016, he held a referendum to change the constitution once again so that he could run for the fourth term. The question asked in the referendum was "Do Bolivians want to lift the limit on Bolivian presidency?", But most of the people participating in the referendum object to this.

Failure to referendum, Morales devised a new strategy, saying that his human rights would be violated if banned from running. The Bolivian Constitutional Court agrees with this argument by Morales and allows him to run for the fourth time.

At 20:00 on the night of October 20, the preliminary results with 83% of the votes counted showed that Morales will not win the first round of voting and may fail in the second round, when the candidates oppose the delegation. together. But suddenly, the vote counting results did not continue to update that night.

During the next 23 hours, the voting notification system was still numb. When the vote count was announced the next day, the votes suddenly magically tilted toward Morales. Shortly thereafter, he announced victory.

An election monitoring committee consisting of 92 members of the Organization of American States (OAS) later declared the vote counting "inappropriate" and recommended Bolivia to hold a second round of elections. However, Morales denied that this was a "coup" plot against democracy.

In opposition to the opposition, Morales said his government needed more time to implement all the reforms that had been set in advance. However, this argument by Morales did not convince the voters, when people supported the opposition's call and took to the streets to protest.

After the army and police turned away from Morales, calling for him to withdraw, the Bolivian President accepted his resignation. Morales said he made the decision for "the good of the country" but added that "dark forces have destroyed national democracy", referring to the opponents he accused of plotting a coup. .