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Over the past 20 years, the leadership of most Latin American democracies has swung back and forth between the political left ...
Preliminary results of first-round voting for president of Bolivia on August 17 determined that centrist Rodrigo Paz, with 32.1% of the vote, and ...
Socialism may have failed, as it always does, in Bolivia, but that unfortunately does not mean that it is turning toward the ...
The defeat of Bolivia's long powerful socialists at the weekend highlights a broader backlash against incumbent leftists that ...

Turning Point

Bolivia’s presidential election has set the stage for a political transformation, unprecedented in nearly two decades.
Now, on October 19, Bolivians will hold presidential runoff for the first time—an option only introduced in the 2009 ...
Voters say they’ve had enough of the hard-left MAS party.
Bolivians have headed to the polls for a pivotal election that could end the long reign of the leftist Movement Toward ...
A seismic political shift has taken place in Bolivia. The country’s leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party, which has ...
A dark horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, drew more votes than the right-wing front-runners, although not enough to secure an ...
One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as ...