After 20 years of socialism, Bolivian voters look right for economic salvation | News

LA PAZ, Oct 14, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Bolivia will choose between two rightwing figures in presidential elections Sunday, ending two decades of socialist rule that has left the beleaguered South American nation deep in the red. With no dollars, no fuel, and annual inflation nearing 25 percent, struggle-weary voters flatly rejected the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party founded by former president Evo Morales, in a first electoral round in August. On Sunday they will elect one of two die-hard MAS opponents in the hopes of change: Senator Rodrigo Paz or former president Jorge Quiroga. Either way, the country will bring to an end an economic experiment marked by initial prosperity funded by Morales's nationalization of oil and gas, followed by...