Evo Morales
President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019
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| February 2025 | Evo Morales formally resigned from the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. |
| January 17 2025 | A judge in Tarija ordered Morales's arrest for alleged statutory rape, froze his assets, and banned him from leaving Bolivia. |
| December 16 2024 | An arrest warrant was issued against Evo Morales on charges of 'trafficking' involving the 15-year-old girl. |
| November 8 2024 | The Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal barred Evo Morales from running again for president in the 2025 Bolivian general election, citing he had already exceeded the two-term limit. Morales' lawyer described the ruling as politically motivated. |
| November 1 2024 | Evo Morales initiated a hunger strike demanding that the government of President Luis Arce engage in dialogue amidst ongoing criticisms and protests against the government. |
| October 2024 | Argentina revoked the refugee status of Evo Morales, with the new government of President Javier Milei labeling him an 'attempted dictator.' |
| October 27 2024 | Evo Morales announced that he had survived an assassination attempt when his vehicle was shot at near a military garrison in Villa Tunari, resulting in injuries to his driver, with a bullet narrowly missing him. |
| October 3 2024 | Justice Minister Cesar Siles announced that the investigation into Evo Morales regarding the alleged statutory rape was still ongoing. |
| 2022 | CEPR's research findings about the 2019 election were published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Politics, suggesting Morales' first-round victory was likely legitimate. |
| July 2021 | The Bolivian government received a report from the Bisite Deep Tech Lab Research Group of the University of Salamanca, which concluded that there was no manipulation of data in the official count or in the Transmission of Preliminary Electoral Results (TREP) during the 2019 elections. |
| February 12 2021 | The Plurinational Legislative Assembly approved a Presidential Decree for the Granting of Amnesty and Pardon for Humanitarian Reasons, which included Evo Morales, amid controversy and opposition protests. |
| January 27 2021 | Evo Morales was discharged from the Los Olivos private clinic after receiving treatment for COVID-19. |
| January 12 2021 | Kawsachun Coca radio confirmed that Evo Morales had tested positive for COVID-19, stating that he was 'stable and receiving treatment.' This report contradicted Morales' previous claim that such reports were 'invented' by the right. |
| December 15 2020 | At a meeting in Lauca, Morales faced backlash when he endorsed Carlos Romero for Governor of Santa Cruz, but the participants rejected this and ended up throwing a plastic chair at him in an incident called the 'silletazo.' |
| December 15 2020 | Protesters in El Alto publicly reject Morales' continued interference in candidate selection, with MAS supporters demanding he step back and allow new leadership to emerge. |
| December 14 2020 | In Tarija and Santa Cruz, MAS officials proclaimed Rodolfo Meyer and Adriana Salvatierra as candidates for mayor before Morales arrived. |
| December 11 2020 | Morales tweeted his endorsement of Miguel 'Chiquitín' Becerra as the MAS candidate for Governor of Pando, surprising MAS officials who had chosen another candidate. |
| November 9 2020 | Evo Morales returned to Bolivia after 11 months abroad, one day after new president Luis Arce was sworn into office. |
| October 2020 | The Bolivian anti-narcotics police force, FELCN, and the interim government announced significant seizures of over 12 tons of cocaine and 436 tons of marijuana, alongside the destruction of numerous factories and cocaine laboratories. |
| October 2020 | A court in La Paz dismissed the arrest warrant against Evo Morales, ruling that his rights had been violated and judicial procedures breached. |
| October 30 2020 | Evo Morales was honored with an honorary degree from Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina. |
| October 15 2020 | A study by Gary A. Hoover and Diego Escobari found evidence of a 'statistically significant electoral case of fraud' during the 2019 elections, which contradicted claims of Morales' legitimate victory. |
| September 2020 | Human Rights Watch reported finding no evidence that Evo Morales committed acts of terrorism, characterizing the charges against him as politically motivated. |
| September 28 2020 | Between September 28 and 30, 2020, the Inter-American Court held an advisory hearing regarding the legality of indefinite re-election, which argued that it contradicted the American Convention on Human Rights and negatively impacted representative democracy. |
| August 21 2020 | An unrelated complaint of a second statutory rape case was filed against Evo Morales, claiming he fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl. |
| August 19 2020 | Bolivian Prosecutor's Office began a formal investigation into the statutory rape allegations involving Noemí Meneses. |
| August 19 2020 | The Bolivian Prosecutor's Office began a formal investigation into the statutory rape allegations against Evo Morales. |
| August 16 2020 | Evo Morales's older sister, Esther Morales Ayma, passed away after contracting COVID-19. |
| August 7 2020 | Photographs emerged on social networks showing Evo Morales with a supposed minor, sparking accusations of a long-term relationship with the minor starting from the age of 14. |
| June 2020 | A group of independent researchers in the United States published a report stating that the Organization of American States (OAS)'s conclusion about the voting trend indicating election fraud during the 2019 elections was false, leading to renewed discussions about the legitimacy of Morales' victory. |
| June 2020 | Independent researchers from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) published a report concluding there was 'no statistical evidence of fraud' in the 2019 elections. |
| February 2020 | Evo Morales announced his intention to run for a seat in the Plurinational Legislative Assembly in the 2020 Bolivian general election. |
| February 2020 | The national electoral tribunal ruled that Evo Morales was ineligible to run for the Senate. |
| 2019 | In response to allegations of vote tampering during the election, Evo Morales requested the Organization of American States (OAS) to conduct an audit of the vote count. |
| 2019 | In 2019, the Bolivian Electoral Tribunal accepted Morales' application for candidacy and declined to void it, despite the controversy surrounding the term limits. |
| December 2019 | An arrest warrant was issued for Evo Morales by Bolivian prosecutors for alleged sedition and terrorism following his resignation. |
| December 2019 | Evo Morales moved from Mexico to Argentina, where he was granted political asylum. |
| November 2019 | In late November 2019, Evo Morales's children, Evaliz Morales Alvarado and Álvaro Morales Paredes, left Bolivia and traveled to Buenos Aires. |
| November 11 2019 | A Mexican government plane flew Evo Morales from Cochabamba to Mexico, after he was granted political asylum due to threats to his life and safety. |
| November 10 2019 | Evo Morales resigned as president of Bolivia, describing his removal as 'forced' and a 'coup,' while expressing a desire to prevent bloodshed from election protests. |
| October 2019 | Controversial Bolivian presidential election takes place, leading to significant disputes about potential electoral fraud. |
| October 25 2019 | The final count of the election was released, showing Evo Morales with 47.08% of the votes and Carlos Mesa with 36.51%. |
| October 21 2019 | Mass street protests and counterprotests began in response to claims of electoral fraud following the general election. |
| October 20 2019 | A general election was held in Bolivia, where Evo Morales sought re-election amid controversy. |
| July 11 2019 | Evo Morales received an honorary degree from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. |
| July 10 2019 | Evo Morales was honored as a Knight of the Honorary Order of the Yellow Star in Suriname. |
| April 2019 | Morales condemned the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. |
| February 27 2019 | Evo Morales was awarded an honorary degree from the National University of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. |
| January 10 2019 | Morales attended the swearing-in ceremony of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela for his second term. |
| 2018 | In 2018, the court of the American Convention on Human Rights reviewed and upheld the legality of term limits in Bolivia, which triggered the reinstatement of Bolivian term limit laws. |
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