Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo ( ), is the President of Bolivia, and has been declared the country's first fully indigenous head of state since the Spanish Conquest over 470 years ago. Retrieved February 1, 2007 The latter claim is controversial, as several mestizo presidents preceded him.

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 central 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 social conflicts, along with many other groups, commonly referred to as 'social movements'.