Editorial, Pagina Siete: Arce’s coercion of voters President Luis Arce travels the country coercing voters to vote for MAS candidates on the grounds that this will allow him to better coordinate the works and even the distribution of vaccines. Former President Evo Morales had us used to electoral speeches of this type, but Arce was…
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Polls start closing in ‘calm’ Bolivian general election
Valeria Pacheco, Agence-France Press, Yahoo News: Fears that violence could break out proved unfounded as Bolivians voted peacefully on Sunday to elect a new president and Congress. Polling stations started closing at 5:00 (2100 GMT), although some centers remained open for the queues of people already lined up waiting to cast their ballots. Despite a…
Bolivia election: Five things to know about
Rachelle Krygier, BBC News: Bolivians go to the polls on Sunday in a tensely awaited presidential election, held in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The vote is a re-run of a chaotic October 2019 election that led to the resignation and exile of left-wing president Evo Morales. As Bolivia’s first indigenous leader, he had…
Bolivia Has Changed Since 2003. Has Carlos Mesa?
Brendan O’Boyle, Americas Quarterly: Seventeen years after becoming president during a severe political crisis, Mesa may now return to the job. In 2003, Bolivia was in crisis. A bloody crackdown on weeks of protests had forced President Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada to flee the country. In his place stepped Vice President Carlos Mesa Gisbert,…
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