As a warning to potential coup planners in other Latin American countries, the new government of President Luis Arce—elected in a landslide in October—will not adopt a “forgive and forget” attitude toward former dictator Jeanine Áñez and her key cabinet ministers.
On the contrary: Barely ten days after the election...
President Luis Arce came to power in late 2020 with a leftist discourse and as the chosen successor to Evo Morales.
Five years later, he ends his term without the possibility of running for re-election (he stepped down after polling at just 1%) and with hundreds of political prisoners—all of...
On October 19, Bolivia will have a new president—and he will be from the right. It is confirmed that the country is about to make a sharp ideological turn since the Movement for Socialism (MAS) came to power in January 2006.
Broadly speaking, Bolivia has...
Revolution Has Survived and Flourished Despite U.S. Attempts to Destroy It
February 2 marked the 25th anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution. On that day in 1999, Hugo Chávez, a left-wing Venezuelan army officer, assumed power and initiated a socialist revolution that had ripple effects across the region and world.
Invoking the...
