Evo Morales Summary

In the book Evo Morales: The Extraordinary Rise of the First Indigenous President of Bolivia by Martin Sivak, he accounts the trials and tribulations of the rise of one of Latin America’s most fascinating hero and political leader. The book focuses on Morales’s political journey to the presidency seat, analyzing the political and social changes of Bolivia and surrounding countries. The book is an account of how down to earth Evo Morales really is, and how effortless he fought for the survival of his people's.
Martin Sivak begins the book with a chronicle of Morales’s life from 1995 since the two met that year and from then on until 2007. He reported on cabinet meetings being held where Morales scolds the water minister, for negotiating tariffs without his consent. He accompanies Morales as Venezuelan airplanes whisk him off to remote parts of Bolivia, were Morales inspects the agrarian reform projects and plays soccer games with local communities and won. Sivak gave brief anecdotes that are related about Morales’ youth in which he was not present, like his impoverished childhood and his early political life. Which included working at the age of five, herding llamas to joining
. He believed negotiation should be brothers and sister, that he organized soccer matches between the government and union/organization leaders. Morales humility, and his defiance of protocol as well as of the signs of importance, his perfect security about his self-worth patent in the use of self-deprecating devices, shows clearly that whatever he does, he does it according to his own value system, regardless of what others may think about him. Even when he was repeatedly being investigated and being counter attacked, he never gave up. Through his trials, it was sort of a catalyst in pushing him forward and making him more determined than