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It said that Bolivia was one of the worst affected countries and calculated that Bolivia had five times as many deaths in July as in previous years. [202] Writing in the New York Times in September 2020, Diego von Vacano, who is an expert in Latin America, said Añez' interim government had mismanaged the COVID-19 crisis. [203]
Now the country faces its worst economic crisis this century with natural gas exports tumbling while the dominant socialist party's spend-to-grow economic model has imploded. Bolivia's gas exports ...
The political fight has paralyzed the government's efforts to deal with the deepening economic despair and analysts warn that the social unrest could explode in the historically turbulent nation ...
This year the International Monetary Fund forecasts growth of just 1.6%. Aside from the pandemic plunge in 2020, that would be Bolivia's slowest growth in 25 years. With this economic despair as a backdrop, president Arce and former leader Morales have clashed in a political fight that has paralyzed the government’s efforts to deal with it.
He returned and launched his political comeback after Arce, his choice candidate at the time, won the 2020 election. The political rivalry has divided Congress and exacerbated an economic crisis stemming from the depletion of Bolivia’s foreign-exchange reserves. Protesters on Tuesday decried Arce's failure to halt the spiral and recalled ...
Bolivia marked its transition to democracy in 1982 when the Armed Forces ceded power to a civilian-led government elected two years prior. [2] Despite continued economic turmoil and political instability, the return to civilian rule mostly closed the cycle of volatility that caused the country to experience a multitude of attempted and successful revolutions and coups d'état in the two ...
That simmering anger has paved the way for even more strife in a country that is no stranger to political unrest. Bolivia's economic crisis is rooted in a complex combination of dependence on the ...
A document containing discussions of the Bolivian political crisis states that "“After a broad mobilization of citizens in that country in protest of electoral fraud that was informed and verified by an audit conducted by the Organization of American States (OAS) of the elections that took place on October 20, the president Evo Morales did ...