Bolivia chose its president, ending a long phase of leftwing governments. What is the reason for this result, and what is to be expected in the country’s future? We asked these questions to Adolfo Leigue Mendoza, a Bolivian politician, intellectual and a long-term member of the South American supranational PARLASUR parliament. How do you evaluate the elections? Did the right-wing ...
By Fernando Esteche The crossroads Bolivia faces on the eve of the August 2025 elections represents much more than a simple electoral situation. It is the deepest crisis of the plurinational project since its constitutional founding in 2009, a crisis that jeopardizes the continuity of a state model that emerged as a decolonizing alternative on the continent. The fragmentation of ...
Democracy in check: The crisis of MAS in Bolivia and Evo’s alliance with the accomplices of the coup
By Ana Laura Dagorret* The Movement Towards Socialism in Bolivia (MAS) is going through its final crisis. The rupture has left two well defined sides: On one side, the current president Luis Arce leads the “renovation” of the party. The other side’s leader is the former president and founder of MAS, Evo Morales, who is in an irreconcilable crusade with ...