Despite an agreement to hold a new election in Bolivia after irregularities in the October vote were identified by the Organization of American States, President Evo Morales—whose nearly 14 years in office had seen the country’s real GDP per capita double; its unemployment nearly halve; and its poverty rate decline by 42 percent—resigned because of pressure from the military.
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Weekly Review
Despite an agreement to hold a new election in Bolivia after irregularities in the October vote were identified by the Organization of American States, President Evo Morales—whose nearly 14 years in office had seen the country’s real GDP per capita double; its unemployment nearly halve; and its poverty rate decline by 42 percent—resigned because of pressure from the military.