{"id":170918,"date":"2020-10-26T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=170918"},"modified":"2020-10-20T06:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T05:43:57","slug":"socialist-luis-arce-wins-bolivian-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/10\/socialist-luis-arce-wins-bolivian-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Luis Arce Wins Bolivian Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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19 Oct 2020 – <\/em>A year after former Bolivian president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup that installed a far-right regime, Morales ally Luis Arce declared victory after exit polls showed the socialist candidate with a large advantage over his two main competitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocracy has won,\u201d Arce, who served as Morales\u2019 finance minister, said in an address to the nation after one exit poll showed him leading the race with 52.4% of the vote and former president Carlos Mesa in a distant second with 31.5%. Right-wing candidate Luis Camacho\u2014an ally of unelected interim President Jeanine A\u00f1ez\u2014won just 14.1% of the vote, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

Arce characterized his apparently decisive victory, which even A\u00f1ez was forced to acknowledge, as a mandate to continue the policies of the Morales government, which lifted millions of Bolivians out of poverty and expanded the nation\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Bolivian people want to retake the path we were on,\u201d Arce said Monday.<\/p>\n

Twice postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sunday\u2019s election was a do-over of last year\u2019s presidential contest, which was thrown into chaos after the U.S.-dominated Organization of American States (OAS) leveled baseless allegations of \u201cfraud\u201d by Morales, who was eventually forced to resign and flee the country under threat by Bolivia\u2019s military.<\/p>\n

The coup against Morales sparked a wave of Indigenous-led protests that were violently repressed by the Bolivian military and police forces, which were granted sweeping immunity from prosecution by the anti-Indigenous A\u00f1ez government.<\/p>\n

From exile in Argentina, Morales on Monday celebrated Arce\u2019s apparent victory as a \u201cgreat triumph of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBrothers and sisters: the will of the people has been asserted,\u201d Morales tweeted. \u201cThis is an overwhelming victory\u2026 We are going to give dignity and liberty back to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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19 Oct 2020 – A year after former Bolivian president Evo Morales was ousted in a military coup that installed a far-right regime, Morales’ ally Luis Arce declared victory after exit polls showed the socialist candidate with a large advantage over his two main competitors. \u201cDemocracy has won,\u201d Arce, who served as Morales\u2019 finance minister, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":170919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1140,1607,276,392,1085,541,874],"class_list":["post-170918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-bolivia","tag-bolivian-coup","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-evo-morales","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}