US EditionAs Elections Loom, Are Bolivians Ready for an Opening with US?
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As elections loom, are Bolivians ready for an opening with US?
Bolivia heads into a critical presidential election on August 17th, the first round in what is widely expected to be a two-round contest. With none of the five major candidates polling above 25 percent, a large “blank/nill vote campaign,” and the two left-wing candidates trailing behind the right’s candidates, the fragmented political field has raised the prospect of a run-off for the first time since 2002, before Evo Morales and the Movement To…
The political project led by Evo Morales since 2006 – only interrupted by a coup in 2019 – was bogged down by the internals between the current president, Luis Arce and the historic leader of the Movement to Socialism. Evo called for the vote to be annulled.
Boris Acosta Reyes Bolivia entered the final week in the face of the presidential elections, where the polls point to a 2% distance between the right-wing candidates Samuel Doria Medina and Jorge Quiroga, although the forecasts could change as it is unknown where the left-wing sympathizers are going to direct their votes: a null vote or a vote in favor of Andronico Rodríguez that would throw him in the second or first place.
By Eugenia Rodríguez Cattaneo /La Diaria /Resumen Latinoamericano, August 10, 2025. Recruited in the El Chapare region, its political and trade union stronghold, and protected by thousands of loyal indigenous people, Morales evades justice and campaigns for a null vote; since last October’s assassination attempt has not left the area, [...] La entrada Bolivia. As seen the next election from “the base” of Evo Morales was first published in Latin …
"the truth that we are going through difficulties: lack of fuel you see, press on the currency and speculate about the price of some products. But everyone must be sure that s s the time laughs and n reflects the weakness, but those efforts that transform the pa's are involved. We are in the middle of a change in the structural imprecise vare," said President Luis Arce, in the House of Libertad, in Sucre. Read more (08/09/2025)
Luis Arce, who was Minister of Economy and Finance for 12 years under the administration of Evo Morales, won the presidential elections with 55 percent of the votes in 2020. Morales quickly returned after his exile in Argentina and Mexico with the aim of regaining the centrality he once had, but the internal dispute between the two referents of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) began to increase. The questioning of some members of the cabinet -lik…
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