In 2005, Evo Morales came to power with 54% of the votes and approximately 46% of the population against him. The polarization of the population was extreme and confronted west formed by Aymara and Quechua and east dominated by Creole. It was a new vision of the struggle between rich and poor in the poorest country of South America but this time the poor had power.
In the past 18 months the situation has changed, social support to Evo has increased to unimaginable limits ever...
more »In 2005, Evo Morales came to power with 54% of the votes and approximately 46% of the population against him. The polarization of the population was extreme and confronted west formed by Aymara and Quechua and east dominated by Creole. It was a new vision of the struggle between rich and poor in the poorest country of South America but this time the poor had power.
In the past 18 months the situation has changed, social support to Evo has increased to unimaginable limits ever experienced in the Andean-Amazonian country. Demonstrations of strength and support have multiplied throughout the country since the march that traveled almost 200 km to claim the new constitution and which was supported by hundreds of thousands of people coming to cram the Plaza Murillo and the city of La Paz.
Evo has become an iconic figure among indigenous peoples and the most disadvantaged. His followers are thousands and support to Evo is unconditional and in some cases has become unhealthy. It is customary to compare the figure of Evo with large indigenous leaders in the struggle for independence as Tupac Katari and was recently proclaimed as Apu Mallku, supreme leader. His figure among his followers every day is closer to the worship of a deity to admiration for a figure who since his election as president became historic by being the continent's first indigenous president.
These images show the progress made in the past year and a half by his followers and by Evo during the time called by his generators, "The change process" based on the image of Evo Morales, process who intends to change the situation of the Bolivian population largely mired in the poverty. Since the elections of December 2009 this process has entered a new phase with the re-election of Evo Morales by over 70% of the vote, after that Evo and his party assumed absolute power in the country.
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