Born in the Orinoco, Oruro, Bolivia, on October 26, 1959, he is a Bolivian trade unionist, activist and Bolivian indigenous leader, sixty-fifth President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia since January 23, 2006.

He began to act in the union movement since the 1980s, within the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB), reaching the direction of the Special Federation of the Tropics, one of the six union federations of coca producers that act in the area of ​​the Cochabamba tropics and that since 1991 are coordinated by a Coordination Committee chaired by Evo Morales.

He was one of the founders of the Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (IPSP), which later joined the Movement to Socialism (M.A.S.) to participate in the general elections of 1997, in which he was elected deputy for Cochabamba.

In the 2005 elections, Morales won almost 54 percent of the vote, making him the first president of indigenous origin. He assumed power on January 22, 2006.

He is the third Bolivian president in the history of the Republic elected by an absolute majority of votes.

On December 6, 2009, new presidential elections were held, where he was re-elected with 64.22 percent of the votes and resumed the presidency of Bolivia on January 22, 2010.

At the XI Ordinary Congress of the Coordinator of the Six Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba, closed on July 8, 2012, Evo Morales was re-elected as the leader of the coca growers of Chapare-Cochabamba.

On October 12, 2014, he won with a wide margin the presidential elections, which will govern until January 22, 2020. In total, the Bolivian head of state will add 14 years to power.

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