Weekly Report - 10 December 2020 (WR-20-49)

Bolivia’s minister of the presidency, Marianela Prada, lamented on 7 December that President Luis Arce’s government had inherited a “bankrupt state”, a country “going through one of the deepest economic crises in our history”. Prada recognised the role played by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in bringing about this state of affairs but was also keen to demonstrate the responsibility of interim president Jeanine Áñez’s administration, which she suggested had contributed to the country’s economic decline by prioritising “pettiness and the hatred of opponents” over economic responsibility.