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Evo Morales

President of Bolivia, 2006 to 2019

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Bolivia's first Indigenous president nationalized gas and cut poverty, but resigned after a disputed 2019 election.

Evo Morales sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly anti-establishment on institutions and leaning authoritarian on liberty and authority. The profile is close to the middle on technology, religion and interventionism.

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Where Evo Morales sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureSlightly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyCentered on technology
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionCentered on religion
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismCentered on interventionism
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Evo Morales

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner President of Argentina, 2007 to 201599%Patrice Lumumba Prime Minister of the Congo, 196098%Thomas Sankara President of Burkina Faso, 1983 to 198797%Albin Kurti Prime Minister of Kosovo, 2020 and 2021 to present97%Rafael Correa President of Ecuador, 2007 to 201796%Anura Kumara Dissanayake President of Sri Lanka, 2024 to present96%Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of Brazil, 2003 to 2010 and 2023 to present96%Giuseppe Conte Prime Minister of Italy, 2018 to 202196%

People furthest from Evo Morales

Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199521%Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher, 1905 to 198221%Mitch McConnell US Senate Republican leader, 2007 to 202528%Mike Pence US Vice President, 2017 to 202128%

Political views closest to Evo Morales

Left-wing populismFrames politics as ordinary people against economic elites, with strong redistribution…98%Anti-colonial nationalismFuses independence struggles with economic self-reliance and national dignity.95%Pan-AfricanismSeeks solidarity and unity among African peoples and states.95%BolivarianismA Latin American left movement mixing socialism, nationalism and Simón Bolívar's dream…93%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: EneasMx, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.