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Bolivia's left in historic defeat as vote set for runoff
Oman Observer
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August 18, 2025
LA PAZ: Centrist senator Rodrigo Paz was leading Bolivia's presidential election, according to early official results, which showed the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) on track for its worst election defeat in a generation. Paz, of the...
Bolivia heads to presidential runoff after no candidate emerged clear winner
Press TV
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Bolivia's presidential election will proceed to a runoff after no candidate met the electoral thresholds required to avoid a second round. Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced on Monday that no candidate secured the required majority in...
An indigenous voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in La Paz on August 17.
Buenos Aires Times
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August 18, 2025
Voters sent two pro-business candidates to Bolivia’s presidential election run-off, ending two decades of almost-uninterrupted socialist rule and likely transforming both the nation’s economic model and its relations with Washington. With 95...
World Associated Press What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape
Yahoo News
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga galvanizing...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape
The Messenger - Kentucky
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga galvanizing...
Bolivia the latest South American country to lurch right as fed-up voters reject ruling socialists
The Irish Times
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Nearly two decades of indigenous-led leftist hegemony over Bolivian politics came to a crashing end on Sunday as the ruling Movement Towards Socialism party was handed a humiliating defeat in presidential elections. The movement (known as the MAS...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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“There has been a paradigm shift,” said Bolivian sociologist Renzo Abruzzese. “What is truly historic is that the old cycle is over. It has carried away the classical leftist thought that dominated much of the 20th century.” The shadow of unrest...
'Things will improve': Bolivians look forward to right's return
Tracy Press - California
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Bolivians on Monday began looking to a future without the ruling socialists of the past two decades, after the first round of presidential and parliamentary elections were won by a resurgent right. The Movement towards Socialism (MAS), in power...
Right-wingers to contest Bolivia run-off
Taipei Times
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August 18, 2025
A center-right senator and a right-wing former president are to advance to a run-off for Bolivia’s presidency after the first round of elections on Sunday, marking the end of two decades of leftist rule, preliminary official results showed....
Former Bolivian president and presidential candidate for the Alianza Libre coalition, Jorge 'Tuto' Quiroga Ramírez (left) and Bolivian presidential candidate for the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Rodrigo Paz.
Buenos Aires Times
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August 18, 2025
A right-wing ex-president and a senator from Bolivia's richest regions will go head-to-head in the country's presidential runoff in October after leading the first round of voting on Sunday. Centre-right Senator Rodrigo Paz came from behind to...
SHE Leads in Business 2025: A Conference for Female Professionals in the Caribbean
EA News
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August 18, 2025
On August 25, 2025, in Bonaire SHE Leads in Business is coming to Bonaire on August 25, 2025, following four highly successful editions of the SHE Leads Conference in Curaçao. Silvetty de la Paz and her team are organizing the first-ever edition...
EM currencies steady as Ukraine talks loom; India stocks outperform
Mint
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August 18, 2025
EM stocks up 0.1%, FX flat India stocks outperform on proposed tax cuts Romanian stocks fall on austerity worries S.Korea shares fall on US tariff plan reports Aug 18 (Reuters) - Most emerging market currencies were steady on Monday, as markets...
The Left’s Collapse Opens a New Era of Uncertainty in Bolivia
World Politics Review
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August 18, 2025
Supporters throw confetti on former President Evo Morales after a meeting with a peasants' federation in the Chapare region of Bolivia, Aug. 17, 2025 (AP Photo by Jorge Saenz). Bolivia’s presidential election will head to a runoff, after no...
Bolivia: Election Surprise and MAS Will Cease to Govern
Havana Times
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August 18, 2025
Jorge Quiroga and Rodrigo Paz headed for runoff Opposition candidates Rodrigo Paz Pereira (left) and Jorge Quiroga (right) will contest an unprecedented presidential runoff in Bolivia on October 19, 2025. // Photo: EFE | Luis Gandarillas and...
Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza City, Putin courts Trump, Bolivia’s right-wing gains, U.S. stops medical treatment for Gaza’s children
Drop Site
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August 18, 2025
Since dawn, Israeli forces have killed at least 17 people in Gaza, with the Ministry of Health reporting five more deaths from starvation. Israel announces plans to forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza southwards as part...
1 in 5 Bolivians spoiled their ballots – a sign of voter dissatisfaction as nation tips to the right
The Conversation
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August 18, 2025
For the first time since the country’s return to democracy in 1982, Bolvia’s presidential election will go to a runoff after no candidate secured the required absolute majority in the first-round vote on Aug. 17, 2025. The choice Bolivians now...
Bolivia se aleja de la izquierda ¿y se acerca a Trump?
KVIA - Texas
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August 18, 2025
Análisis por Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español Bolivia afrontará por primera vez una segunda vuelta electoral tras los comicios del domingo, que también marcaron un hito no visto en más de 20 años en el país: los votantes pusieron fin al ciclo del...
Bolivia rejects dominant left-wing leadership in first round of state elections
Semafor
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August 18, 2025
A centrist and a center-right candidate made it through the first round of Bolivia’s presidential election, which was marked by voters’ rejection of the ruling left-wing party. The Movement Toward Socialism has ruled Bolivia for almost two decades...
Bolivia: 2 right candidates reach second round of presidential elections
Yemen News Agency SABA
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Skouras - Saba: Senator Rodrigo Paz and former President Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga have qualified for the second round of Bolivia's presidential election after leading in Sunday's first round, according to preliminary official results. Paz, a...
Bolivian Presidential Election Headed For Runoff
RTTNews
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August 18, 2025
Bolivia's presidential election is headed for a runoff as none of the candidates were able to garner enough share of the vote needed to secure an outright victory. With most of the votes counted in the election held on Sunday, centrist Senator...