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Socialism Defeated in Bolivia, the Reign of Evo Morales’s MAS Party Ended
The Gateway Pundit
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August 19, 2025
Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales, longtime leader of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. Photo courtesy of Joel Alvarez (Joels86), CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. For the first time in...
The defeat of Bolivia’s left is a warning for South Africa
Mail & Guardian
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August 18, 2025
After the coup, Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism returned to power in 2020 with Luis Arce winning the presidency. Photo: Aizar Raldes/AFP The loss of Bolivia’s Movement for Socialism (MAS) in the election of 17 August was long anticipated. Its...
Far right regaining power in Bolivia after collapse of Movement Toward Socialism (MAS)
World Socialist Web Site
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August 20, 2025
Jorge Quiroga (left) and Rodrigo Paz [Photo: Wikipedia]The first round of Bolivia’s presidential elections Sunday resulted in the electoral collapse of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party which first came to power 20 years ago under former...
New Pacific Metals Corp. (NYSE American: NEWP) (TSX: NUAG) Opens Rare Frontier In Bolivia's Underexplored Silver Belt
MENAFN
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August 19, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Brand Network) Bolivia is the world's fourth-largest silver producer, yet much of its mineral-rich territory remains unmapped. Less than 10% of Bolivia's silver-rich mineral belt has undergone modern exploration. New Pacific...
General Secretariat of the Andean Community and IICA jointly establish the Andean Situation Room and Agricultural Policy Observatory
Dominica News Online
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August 19, 2025
Dominica News Online - Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 at 2:39 PM Photo credit: IICAThe Secretariat of the Andean Community (CAN) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have jointly launched the new Situation Room and...
Bolivia Runoff Shakes Markets as Pro-Business Rivals Vie for Mandate
LatinAmerican Post
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August 19, 2025
In a stunning first-round upset, two pro-market rivals now face off to lead Bolivia out of its most profound economic crisis in a generation—shaking off a twenty-year socialist grip and setting the stage for a runoff that could redraw alliances...
Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?
New Scientist
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Waste from a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo contains cobalt, copper and other minerals Pascal Maitre/Panos Pictures Frigid, remote and mostly uninhabited, Greenland isn’t a place that usually attracts much attention. But the...
Por qué Trump merece reconocimiento por su impulso a la paz en Ucrania, y por qué todo podría fracasar
KVIA - Texas
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August 19, 2025
Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN Fue el mejor día que Ucrania ha tenido en mucho tiempo. Pero aún es difícil imaginar cómo podría terminar pronto la guerra desatada por la brutal invasión rusa. El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky,...
Bolivian Election Signals Latin America’s Shift to the Right
KKOH - Nevada
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August 19, 2025
The initial results from Bolivia’s closely watched presidential election on Monday underscored a broader trend unfolding across Latin America: a sharp shift away from the socialist left that once dominated the region, toward right-of-center...
Socialism ends in Bolivia after two decades
The Spectator Australia
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August 18, 2025
Bolivia is to be treated to a nail-biting run-off this autumn between two conservatives in the race to be the next president after the spectacular collapse of the socialist movement that has dominated the landlocked state for the past twenty...
An indigenous voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in La Paz on August 17.
Buenos Aires Times
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August 18, 2025
Voters sent two pro-business candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election run-off, ending two decades of almost-uninterrupted socialist rule and likely transforming both the nation’s economic model and its relations with Washington. With 95...
Travelers Should Beware of Bolivia's Chikungunya Outbreak
Precision Vaccinations
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(Vax-Before-Travel News)Since first detected in the Plurinational State of Bolivia in 2015, the Chikungunya virus has increasingly spread throughout this South American Country. As of August 18, 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)...
Bolivia heads to presidential runoff after no candidate emerged clear winner
Press TV
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Bolivia's presidential election will proceed to a runoff after no candidate met the electoral thresholds required to avoid a second round. Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced on Monday that no candidate secured the required majority in...
In Europe, longshoremen organize to keep weapons parts from shipping to Israel
The Times of Israel
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August 19, 2025
Located just 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Marseille in southern France, Marseille-Fos is one of the busiest ports in France, handling over 70 million tons of goods a year. In June, dock workers there were busy rummaging frantically through...
Bolivia the latest South American country to lurch right as fed-up voters reject ruling socialists
The Irish Times
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Nearly two decades of indigenous-led leftist hegemony over Bolivian politics came to a crashing end on Sunday as the ruling Movement Towards Socialism party was handed a humiliating defeat in presidential elections. The movement (known as the MAS...
Bolivia rejects dominant left-wing leadership in first round of state elections
Semafor
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August 18, 2025
A centrist and a center-right candidate made it through the first round of Bolivia’s presidential election, which was marked by voters’ rejection of the ruling left-wing party. The Movement Toward Socialism has ruled Bolivia for almost two decades...
Where could drivers find the cheapest gas in cities within La Paz County in week ending Aug. 9?
SW Arizona News
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August 17, 2025
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.govFederal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements | www.ferc.gov There was a single gas station in cities across La Paz County selling...
Bolivia heads to presidential runoff, pitting centrist candidate against right wing
The Globe and Mail
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August 18, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Rodrigo Paz’s campaign gained unexpected traction in recent weeks, upsetting expectations that the two leading right-wing contenders would capture the top two spots in the election.Freddy Barragan/The Associated Press...
Bolivia heads to runoff presidential election
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 18, 2025
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Bolivians were headed for an unprecedented runoff presidential election following a vote Sunday in which a dark horse centrist, Sen. Rodrigo Paz, drew more votes than the right-wing front-runners, although not enough to secure...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape
Yahoo News
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, galvanizing...