Evo Morales (born Juan Evo Morales Ayma on 26 October 26, 1959) was elected President of Bolivia in 2006. Of the Ayama people, Evo Morales was assertedly the first Indigenous Indian to be elected president of Bolivia. Evo Morales has publicly supported the famous Argentinian Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, who was executed by CIA-assisted Bolivian soldiers in 1967. He is a major leader of the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas People or ALBA (Spanish: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América; ALBA is an international cooperation organization involving countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, namely Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela) (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales ).
Bolivian President Evo Morales (November 2008): “Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature.”
[1]. Evo Morales, quoted by Andrew Rice, :Why eco-socialism?”, Green Left weekly, 30 May 2009: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/41788 .