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Four Urgent Questions on Bolivia’s Election

By Brendan O’Boyle

Uncertainty reigns as the pandemic shakes Bolivian politics.

Bolivia has been trying to elect a new president since last October, when the voting ended in protests, violence, President Evo Morales’ resignation and the ascent of an interim government nobody had voted for Since then, the devastating COVID-19 pandemic has compounded the political crisis, delaying the do-over vote and complicating the dynamics of the campaign “I think the word of this crisis right now is uncertainty,” Rodrigo Riaza Pérez, an analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, told AQ With so much unknown, four questions loom over the presidential race – and their...

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