The Bolivian puzzle

A protester during a protest against interim president Jeanine Áñez in El Alto, Bolivia.DAVID MERCADO / Reuters

Assuming they take place without pitfalls or pitched battles, Bolivia's presidential elections will not solve its major problems, nor the hostility between the wealthy Santa Cruz clans and the indigenous unions, but they are essential to address a socioeconomic and health crisis that accentuates inequalities and will force consensus to prevent new outbreaks of violence. With the pandemic, the structural obstacles of the Andean country have emerged, whose stability depends on a democracy that is not alienated from totalitarianism and combines respect for self-determination ...

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