Four for you Evo, you GO Evo!

So today has been a day of stressing about the end of semester, worrying about how I'm going to do on my Comparative Colonialism final, and hearing depressing presentations in class about the MS 13 gang and yet more military juntas supported by the U.S. But then I started to work on my research paper for Latin American history, and you know what? The prez of Bolivia is actually pretty awesome - I somehow managed to find a topic that is uplifting to research!

Let's start with this guy's dress sense. Right away you know he's pretty chill, because he wears a dorky sweater everywhere instead of fancy political dress. Observe:

He chooses to wear his classic indigenous sweater even when surrounded by Serious Frowny-Face Military Types.

Meeting with the leader of China? Time to dress up the sweater with a nice black jacket! Way to keep it classy, Evo.

Makin' time to hang out with his indigenous peeps, he retains the all-important sweater and adds some flowers for more hippie power.

Even Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa, approves of the Evo sweater.

Here he is, forgoing the sweater for an even less uptight approach, the short-sleeved shirt.,

His other pluses include: raging about mistreatment of "Mother Earth," supporting unions, being a soccer enthusiast, and having a personal background in herding llamas. He also VOLUNTARILY slashed his own salary by 57% to make a point. Then, he took even more out of his salary, suggested that congress do the same, and donated the money to Haiti and Chile. He makes 1,875 a month now. He's a proud socialist that is in favor of "democratic revolution" (his words) instead of armed revolt. He also hasn't been afraid to call the U.S. out on exploitative economic policies toward Latin America.