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INTRODUCING… LUIS ARCE CATACORA

he bespectacled, 57-year-old Arce swept to power in Bolivia on 18 October 2020 as the presidential candidate of the leftist Movement for Socialism (MAS). His total vote share – over 55 per cent – surprised even the most ardent of MAS partisans. His closest competitor, the old political warhorse of the centre-right Carlos Mesa, failed

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