Political scientist. Member of the Political Research Center of the Law School of Autonomus Univeristy of Gabriel Rene Moreno (Santa Cruz de la Sierrra). Published the essay "Rebelión y Pandemia. Proceso político-electoral en Bolivia 2019-2020" Edited by Plural.
In the run-up to the August 17 general elections, more than a dozen presidential pre-candidates promise to solve the economic crisis and remove MAS from government.
The complex situation in which the president finds himself, combined with a coup attempt with little chance of success led by a government ideologue, has generated doubts in certain sectors.
In a recent MAS congress, Evo Morales was ratified as national leader and declared the sole candidate for the presidential elections. On the same occasion, President Luis Arce was expelled.
Since 2019, political adversaries have emerged for Evo Morales, from the MAS bases, and the main cause is his interest in running again for the presidency in 2025.
Jeanine Áñez's double condition of victim and culprit responds to different certainties, criteria, ideologies and premises. There is no single truth. For some, Áñez is a symbol of democracy and resistance and for others of coup d'état and death.
At the beginning of November, several social organizations began a strike in the department of Santa Cruz in rejection of a law aimed at increasing political centralism. This conflict is the result of the government's difficulties in generating consensus in a society marked by historical fractures.
The political instrumentalization of the judiciary has been a recurrent practice of all governments in Bolivia. The country has been trapped in a vicious circle and currently, with Arce's government, many distrust the promise of "a new time". After four months in power his actions contradict the discourse.
The first hundred days of Luis Arce have been marked by mobilizations of various unions and unions. Social discontent with certain government measures, in the midst of the pandemic and a pre-electoral subnational process, continues to generate serious economic and health consequences.
Political parties are necessary for the functioning of the democratic system but at the same time they can provoke antipathy in the citizenry. In Latin America, confidence in them is only 13%, which shows that they no longer express the collective will.
