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October 4, 2024

What Do Protests in Bolivia Mean for the Ruling Party?

Supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales and of current President Luis Arce clashed last month in competing demonstrations. Supporters of Morales are pictured. // Photo: @evoespueblo.

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  • Political protests in Bolivia escalated on Sept. 22, with supporters of President Luis Arce and former President Evo Morales clashing on the streets of El Alto. As the divide within MAS, Bolivia’s governing party, continues to spill into the streets, the outlooks for Bolivia’s macroeconomic and institutional stability—as well as the political futures of Arce and Morales—grow increasingly uncertain. How have the recent protests affected the power dynamic between pro-Arce and pro-Morales factions of MAS? How do the current conditions leading up to the August 2025 general election compare to Bolivia’s 2019 election, which saw Morales ousted under contentious circumstances? What role do Bolivia’s centrist and right-wing opposition parties play in the growing dispute within the left?

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Daniel E. Moreno Morales, Senior researcher at Ciudadanía, Comunidad de Estudios Sociales y Acción Pública in Cochabamba, Bolivia: “Internal tensions in Bolivia’s MAS between President Arce and party-leader Morales have escalated into fully declared war. Actions have moved from competing displays of popular support into mutual accusations of corruption and complicity with drug-trafficking; recent protests of Morales’ supporters have even threatened to overthrow the national government. But what seems to be at the center of the discussion is who is responsible for the current failing state of the economy. While in 2020 Morales campaigned for Arce, praising his former economy minister as the mastermind behind the country’s economic success…”

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