Bolivia will turn the page on nearly two decades of disastrous socialism in Sunday’s presidential runoff election between conservative former President Jorge Quiroga and Senator Rodrigo Paz.
The election will determine who will become Bolivia’s next president for the next five years and succeed outgoing socialist President Luis Arce on November 8.
For nearly two decades, Bolivia was under the near-monolithic rule of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party, first under former President Evo Morales, a wannabe dictator and fugitive of the law on pedophilia allegations, and then by his successor, outgoing socialist President Luis Arce, whose term ends in November.
Arce’s disastrous socialist policies, and a years-long power struggle between Morales and Arce, fractured MAS, which suffered a resounding defeat at the polls in August’s general elections. The party, which boasted a majority rule for almost two decades, not only lost the presidency by a landslide, but saw its once-majority grip of Congress reduced down to two seat
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