In Bolivia, an “Intense” Battle Between Arce and Morales
The struggle between President Arce and Evo Morales for control of the MAS party is consuming national politics and jeopardizing the economy.
Bolivia’s current president, Luis Arce, was Evo Morales’ economy and finance minister for 11 years, stepping down only to seek treatment for kidney cancer. Together, at the head of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, the pair presided over Bolivia’s “economic miracle” of the 2000s and early 2010s, slashing poverty and quadrupling GDP as they rode the region’s commodity boom. Those days are long over. Today the two leaders are wrestling each other for control of the MAS and its nomination for the October 2025 presidential election, a bitter and highly personal battle that is...
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