Evo Morales
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Juan Evo Morales Aima (born October 26, 1959) is the president of Bolivia. He is an Aymara Native American, and is politically a leftist. He is the founder and leader of the Movement toward Socialism (or MAS) political party. Movimiento al Socialismo is its Spanish name. On January 22, 2006, he became president of Bolivia. His party has declared that he is the first indigenous person to be president of Bolivia, but this claim is in dispute given his mestizo heritage and similar backgrounds of several past Bolivian presidents. Nonetheless, he is likely the first culturally indigenous president of Bolivia.