Bolivia: a free and fair election

Evo Morales' time is up, but the MAS under Luis Arce’s leadership could still win this election, and if it doesn’t then Carlos Mesa will probably become president, which would not be a disaster either. Democracy is not dead in Bolivia.

It turns out that mourning for the death of Bolivian democracy has been a bit premature. The leading candidate in this election is still from the MAS: Luis Arce, a former economy minister who oversaw the nationalization program under Evo Morales, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 14, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—The quotation is usually given as “Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely," but Lord Acton’s original remark went on to say: “Great men are almost always bad men.” And so they are. This is not to say that all bad men in power are also great men. President Alexande...

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