Don't humor these people. He was winning an election he had no place in. He was pressured out by people who didn't want to follow the communist dictatorship plan of government that's killed so many. The election got delayed because of a global pandemic. The people in the streets accomplished nothing but senseless destruction.
I am not great fan of Morales's circumvention of the term limit law by any means... but it was ultimately legal under Bolivia's constitution. At that point, if the people of Bolivia didn't want him, they merely had to vote him out. They didn't.
He was plainly coerced out. And as we can see, once choice was returned to them, the people have returned a successor to him.
The thing is, Morales was not the stereotype of a Latin American leftist tyrant who ruined his country with autocracy and ill-considered policy. By virtually any measure you care to look at he governed Bolivia well, delivering both good economic growth and greatly improved human development. My perceptions is that Bolivia, like many Latin American countries, has an ex-colonial aristocracy, upper-middle class that believes it is their right to rule and to exploit the country. Morales broke their grip and they hate him for it. That he ruled well makes them hate him even more, because in doing so he showed them up for what they had failed to give the people.
This victory for MAS seems like the right thing to have happened. Let's see how the new guy does, and I wish him the same success as his predecessor bar one.
