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Bolivia Runoff Shakes Markets as Pro-Business Rivals Vie for Mandate
LatinAmerican Post
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August 19, 2025
In a stunning first-round upset, two pro-market rivals now face off to lead Bolivia out of its most profound economic crisis in a generation—shaking off a twenty-year socialist grip and setting the stage for a runoff that could redraw alliances...
A centrist surges in Bolivia as voters turn away from socialism
The San Juan Daily Star - Puerto Rico
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August 19, 2025
Samuel Doria Medina, a center-right businessman who had been leading in polls to be elected Bolivia’s president on Sunday, Aug. 16, speaks to reporters in La Paz, Bolivia, Aug. 13, 2025. He finished third in Sunday’s voting, according to the...
Bolivian presidential election goes to second round
Vatican News
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August 18, 2025
Moderate centrist Rodrigo Paz has surprised political pundits and shocked pollsters, by winning the first round of Bolivia’s Presidential Election, with a second-round runoff set for October 19th. By James Blears Senator Rodrigo Paz, the son of a...
Travelers Should Beware of Bolivia's Chikungunya Outbreak
Precision Vaccinations
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(Vax-Before-Travel News)Since first detected in the Plurinational State of Bolivia in 2015, the Chikungunya virus has increasingly spread throughout this South American Country. As of August 18, 2025, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)...
Bolivian elections end almost 20 years of Socialist dominance
The Times
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Bolivian voters have ended nearly two decades of left-wing political dominance after a presidential election led to an unprecedented run-off between centrist and right-wing candidates. Early results in elections on Sunday suggested that despite...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape
Yahoo News
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, galvanizing...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political landscape
The Messenger - Kentucky
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — One candidate is Rodrigo Paz, a conservative centrist senator and son of a neoliberal ex-president who is pitching himself as a moderate reformer. The other is former right-wing president Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga galvanizing...
What to know about Bolivia's election that elevated a centrist shaking up the political...
Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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“There has been a paradigm shift,” said Bolivian sociologist Renzo Abruzzese. “What is truly historic is that the old cycle is over. It has carried away the classical leftist thought that dominated much of the 20th century.” The shadow of unrest...
Bolivia headed for runoff between rightwing candidates
MercoPress
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Monday, August 18th 2025 - 07:44 UTC Arce was booed as he turned up at the polling station Right-wing candidates Rodrigo Paz Pereira and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga advanced Sunday to an unprecedented runoff after the elections in Bolivia....
Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza City, Putin courts Trump, Bolivia’s right-wing gains, U.S. stops medical treatment for Gaza’s children
Drop Site
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August 18, 2025
Since dawn, Israeli forces have killed at least 17 people in Gaza, with the Ministry of Health reporting five more deaths from starvation. Israel announces plans to forcibly displace hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza southwards as part...
Measles Cases Increase 34-Fold in the Americas
Precision Vaccinations
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(Vax-Before-Travel News)The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recently urged countries in the Americas to strengthen immunization activities as measles cases continue to rise in the region. As of August 8, 2025, a total of 10,139 confirmed...
World News | Bolivia Heads to Presidential Run-off as MAS Ends Two-decade Rule
Latestly
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August 18, 2025
La Paz [Bolivia], August 18 (ANI): Bolivia is heading to a presidential run-off between a Centrist and Right-wing candidate, marking the end of nearly two decades of government by the Movement for Socialism (MAS), the country's electoral council...
1 in 5 Bolivians spoiled their ballots – a sign of voter dissatisfaction as nation tips to the right
The Conversation
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August 18, 2025
For the first time since the country’s return to democracy in 1982, Bolvia’s presidential election will go to a runoff after no candidate secured the required absolute majority in the first-round vote on Aug. 17, 2025. The choice Bolivians now...
Collapse of the Bolivian left
Atalayar
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August 18, 2025
This is the result of an overwhelming majority of the population, who have largely divided their votes between a Spanish-Bolivian born in Santiago de Compostela in 1967, Rodrigo Paz Pereira, of the Christian Democratic Party, and former president...
Where Are Chikungunya Cases Coming From in 2025
Precision Vaccinations
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(Vax-Before-Travel News)Before 2006, chikungunya fever infections were rarely identified in the United States. However, starting in 2014, cases of chikungunya began to appear among U.S. travelers returning from affected regions in the Americas....
Bolivia Elects a New President Today, August 17th
Havana Times
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August 17, 2025
with right-wing candidates as favorites The ballots used by nearly eight million Bolivians to vote on August 17 still bear the image of the only woman who competed, Eva Copa, who opted to withdraw in July. The favorites to win this first round are...
Bolivians Head to the Polls in High-Stakes Election Amid Deep Political Tensions
teleSUR
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The sign reads, “Your vote decides the future of Bolivia. Participate!”. X/ @QNAEnglish August 17, 2025 Hour: 7:37 am On Sunday, nearly 8 million Bolivians are set to vote to elect a president, vice president, 130 legislators, 36 senators and nine...
Bolivian Government Denounces Right-Wing “Dirty War” Prior to General Elections
teleSUR
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Photograph showing the Legislative Palace this Saturday, in La Paz (Bolivia). Photo: EFE/ Luis Gandarillas August 16, 2025 Hour: 8:17 pm The Government of Bolivia rejected accusations by the Alianza Unidad party about an alleged plan to link them...
The Morning Briefing: Let's Trade the Vodka for Diet Coke. I Have a Kremlin Hangover.
PJ Media - Virginia
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August 18, 2025
Happy Monday, Morning Briefing readers. I'm filling in for Kruiser today — I'm not sure where he is, but the last time any of us saw him, he was chasing and cursing the ice cream man because he ran out of Bomb Pops. It's also his mom's 87th...
Decades of Socialist Rule at Stake as Bolivia Vote Count Starts
Yahoo Finance
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Bolivia's Departmental Electoral Tribunal billboard promoting the presidential election, in La Paz on Aug. 16. (Bloomberg) -- The vote count is underway in Bolivia’s presidential and congressional elections that may end years of socialist rule and...