by Leo Fonsingerman | Oct 27, 2020 | University of Chicago
Last weekend, on October 18th, Luis Arce of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas) party won the Bolivian presidential election by a comfortable margin and Jeanine Anez, the evangelical leader of the opposing party, the Democrat Social Movement, ceded power to him...
by Jack Doughty | Oct 12, 2020 | Brown University
The Bolivian coup d’etat against Evo Morales was not, and should not be examined solely as, the result of a fraudulent election. To suggest this erases the deep entrenchment of Bolivia’s neo-fascist Right and, moreover, trivializes the systemic roots of...
by Justin Kopek | Jun 9, 2020 | Arizona State University
On November 10, 2019, facing claims of election fraud and demands from the country’s military for his resignation, Bolivian President Evo Morales stepped down, after almost 14 years at the head of the government. To supporters of Bolivia’s first indigenous president,...
by Salman Khan | Feb 18, 2020 | Georgia State University
Is there more democratic erosion under President Morales’s leadership or under the current interim president, Jeanine Anez? The former indigenous president, Evo Morales, was recently (in late 2019) exiled into Mexico after losing support from the country’s military. A...
by Amanda Stewart | Dec 15, 2019 | Georgia State University
Evo Morales has taken great strides in improving Bolivia’s economy, dismantling poverty, and improving the lives of many indigenous Bolivians. Why, then, has Morales become the latest victim of a militaristic coup? There are many factors contributing to the latest...
