Fresh off winning Sunday’s election, Bolivia’s next president Rodrigo Paz is blazing a rare centrist path out of his country’s economic crisis, focusing on practical policies over ideological divisions engulfing its neighbours.
The folksy president-elect maintains friendly terms with a range of politicians whose support he’ll need to rescue this landlocked nation from economic ruin. And he’s not shy about mending ties with the United States and other countries shunned by his predecessors. Amid scarce fuel and dollars, the stakes are high for Bolivia’s first centrist leader in a generation.
His victory drew a range of nods, notably a grudging acknowledgment from rabble-rousing former president Evo Morales at home and a hearty congratulations from Venezuela’s conservative opposition leader María Corina Machado abroad.
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