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Weekly Report - 12 November 2020 (WR-20-45)

BOLIVIA: Arce looks to the past

Throughout his successful election campaign, Bolivia’s new president Luis Arce distinguished himself from the other candidates by offering a relatively clear vision for the future, while his rivals for the presidency focused instead on the history of Arce’s left-wing Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), and on the spectre of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019). It came as something of a surprise, therefore, when Arce’s inauguration speech on 8 November focused much more on the last 12 months than on the next five years.

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