A Documental about Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, the movimiento al socialismo MAS (movement towards socialism) and more social movements in Bolivia.

Adocumentary centered on the union formed by Bolivian farmers in response to their government's (which was urged by the U.S.) effort eradicate coca crops, and the man who would come to represent them, Evo Morales Hijo de la guerra norteamericana contra las drogas, un aymara llamado Evo- acompañado por una tropa de cocaleros- atraviesa los Andes y el Amazonas en jeans y zapatillas, encabezando una contienda histórica para convertirse en el primer presidente indígena de Bolivia. Indymedia Indypeer Noam Chomsky EZLN Zapatista Bourdieu Che Guevara Obama Naomi Klein Globalisation globalization emancipation marxism anarquism human rights social justice freedom rebellion left attac critique resistance revolution Socialism. He jokes that he's America's worst nightmare and plans to nationalise Bolivia's oil industry and overturn the old social order. As yet another South American country goes left, we profile Bolivia's new President. Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo, is the President of Bolivia, and has claimed to be the country's first indigenous head of state since the Spanish Conquest over 470 years ago. Morales is the leader of Bolivia's cocalero movement a loose federation of coca leaf-growing campesinos who are resisting the efforts of the United States government to eradicate coca in the province of Chapare in southeastern Bolivia. Morales is also leader of the Movement for Socialism political party (Movimiento al Socialismo, with the Spanish acronym MAS, meaning "more"), which was involved in the recent Gas Wars, along with many other groups, commonly referred to as 'social movements'.

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