Bolivia’s president resigns

President Evo Morales stepped down on Sunday, a milestone in the spasms of unrest that have roiled Latin America in recent months.

The longest-serving current Latin American leader, he had refused to give up power, bending laws and insisting that he won a fourth term on Oct. 20 despite widespread concerns of fraud. Protests were unrelenting, and the police and the armed forces finally also demanded that he resign.

Mr. Morales and his vice president insisted they were the victims of a “coup,” and prominent fellow leftists in Venezuela, Argentina and Brazil used the same language to condemn his ouster.

History: Mr. Morales was the first Indigenous president in a country that had for centuries been led by a tiny elite of European descent, and he shepherded Bolivia through an era of economic growth and shrinking inequality.