BOLIVIA took a positive step towards restoring some kind of order last week when Luis Arce and the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party triumphed in a historic general election.

The result comes just under a year after former president and MAS leader Evo Morales was ousted following a report from the US-based Organisation of American States claiming that the October 2019 election which saw Morales re-elected was fraudulent.

The move was seen by many, including Morales, as a US-influenced coup, with the imperialists eyeing Bolivia’s increasingly valuable Lithium reserves that lie under the salt flats of Salar de Uyuni.