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Key Points About the Failed Military Coup and its Aftermath

Pablo Stefanoni — 2024-08-11T10:22:47Z

Images of the military forcibly entering the Government Palace (the Palacio Quemado) have been broadcast around the world, sowing confusion in Bolivia. The failed coup by a faction within the Army, repudiated nationally and internationally, took place in the context of the erosion of Luis Arce's administration, itself large the result of internal discord within the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party. Despite its swift failure, the military rebellion will have political repercussions.

- IV595 - August 2024 / Bolivia

Who's afraid of Pedro Castillo?

Pablo Stefanoni — 2021-06-15T14:44:25Z

“It is possible that the “electoral storm” will be the harbinger of more to come if the elites want to continue governing as they have become accustomed to doing.”

- IV557 - June 2021 / Peru

A referendum won by shots at the goal

Pablo Stefanoni — 2016-04-26T13:24:29Z

Evo Morales committed himself to what was seen, from the beginning, as the most difficult ballot for an administration marked by a succession of electoral triumphs over a decade. As if electoral “abstinence”" proved unbearable for a leader who has need of the continuous approval of the masses, the Bolivian president launched a referendum to get the opportunity to exercise a fourth term even though four years remain to be to completed of his third. And the very government that he had constructed decided, six years after it had been approved, to amend the constitution which founded the bases of the pluri-national state in 2009. The question was: “Do you approve the amendment of Article 168 of the Constitution of the state to ensure that the President and the vice-president of the state can be re-elected two consecutive times?” [1].

- IV495 - April 2016 / Bolivia

Electoral polarization and crisis of the state

Pablo Stefanoni — 2005-12-22T11:31:00Z

In an article written on the eve of the election Paolo Stefanoni traces the political developments which resulted in the May-June 2005 uprising in Bolivia, the subsequent political agreement and the eventual election of Evo Morales.

- IV373 - December 2005 / Bolivia

“The MAS is of the Centre-Left”

Pablo Stefanoni — 2005-12-20T17:30:30Z

Sociologist, political analyst, ex-leader of the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK) along with Felipe Quispe at the beginning of the 1990s, and very much present in the media, Ã lvaro GarcÃa Linera is the newly elected vice-president of Bolvia. He did this interview with Pablo Stefanoni for Inprecor, our French-language sister journal.

- IV373 - December 2005 / Bolivia