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World News | Polls Open in Bolivia's Presidential Run-off as Country Faces Deepening Crisis
La Paz [Bolivia], October 20 (ANI): Bolivians began voting on Sunday in a decisive presidential run-off between two pro-market candidates, signalling the end of nearly 20 years of socialist leadership and a potential pivot back toward closer ties...
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Iran Lauds Successful Presidential Election in Bolivia
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Tasnim News Agency
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In a statement on Monday night, Esmaeil Baqaei wished the Bolivian president-elect the best of luck. He also stressed the unfaltering friendly relations and strengthening of bonds between Iran and Bolivia on the basis of mutual respect and shared...
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Bolivia: Paz y Quiroga se lanzan dardos en debate pero prometen respetar resultados electorales
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Rodrigo Paz y Jorge Quiroga intercambiaron ataques durante el debate presidencial del domingo, pero prometieron otorgar su apoyo al ganador de la segunda vuelta en Bolivia. Los candidatos que definirán la presidencia de Bolivia...
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After Bolivia, will more Latin America nations move towards Trump?
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The Times
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With a fragile peace in the Middle East and an elusive one in Ukraine to pursue, Bolivia might not have been high on President Trump’s agenda in recent weeks. But that changed on Sunday when Rodrigo Paz, the centre-right senator, dislodged the...
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Polls close as Bolivians look to the right for economic salvation
Bolivia's former president and presidential candidate for the Freedom and Democracy (Libre) alliance, Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, greets supporters after voting during the presidential runoff election in La Paz on October 19, 2025. (Photo by Jorge...
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Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia election, as country turns page on 2 decades of socialist rule
Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally prominent figure until now, won Bolivia's presidential election on Sunday, preliminary results showed, galvanizing voters outraged by the country's economic crisis. Paz won 54 per cent of...
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Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia presidential runoff, becoming first conservative leader in decades
Breadcrumb Trail Links News World Author of the article: Associated Press Isabel Debre And Paola Flores Published Oct 20, 2025 • 5 minute read Bolivia's presidential candidate for the Christian Democratic Party (PDC), Rodrigo Paz, delivers a...
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Rodrigo Paz Pereira Wins Bolivia’s Presidential Election, Ending MAS’s Two Decades of Rule
LA PAZ, Bolivia – Centre-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday. This marks a significant political shift away from nearly 20 years of leftist rule by the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party, which was...
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A los bolivianos les prometieron una fiebre de “oro blanco”. Tras 17 años, el país cae en otra “maldición de recursos”
Por Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español Bolivia, que concentra más de una quinta parte del litio de la Tierra, alcanza menos del 1% de la producción mundial de este cotizado mineral, con lo que está fuera de los 10 primeros productores. Los enormes...
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Moderate liberal Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia's presidential runoff
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Xinhua News Agency
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LA PAZ, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Rodrigo Paz Pereira, 58, won the presidential runoff election in Bolivia on Sunday, according to the quick count of the Preliminary Results System of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE). His victory marks the end of...
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Sri Lanka’s education spending far below peer economies
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Daily FT
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HRW report says SL spends about 2% of GDP on education vs. 4.5% in peer economies In 2010, per student spending was $ 516 vs. $ 1,278 in Morocco, $ 1,711 in Namibia, $ 2,121 in Bolivia, and $ 11,192 in the UK Education accounted for just 11.7% of...
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Los estadounidenses permanecen indiferentes ante el acuerdo de Trump sobre Gaza, mientras crecen los temores económicos
Análisis por Aaron Blake, CNN Quizás nadie en el mundo esté tan obsesionado con atribuirse el mérito de sus logros, tanto reales como exagerados, como el presidente Donald Trump. Pero en lo que respecta al acuerdo de alto el fuego en Gaza la...
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Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia Presidency amid severe economic crisis
Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) has been elected as Bolivia's new president after a decisive victory in Sunday's runoff election. Official results from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal confirmed Paz defeated former President...
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Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidential runoff, ending nearly two decades of leftist rule
Open this photo in gallery:'Today, Bolivia can be certain that this will be a government that will bring solutions,' Rodrigo Paz told supporters.Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press Rodrigo Paz, a centrist senator who was never a nationally...
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Rodrigo Paz wins presidential runoff, becoming Bolivia's first conservative leader in...
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Dayton Daily News - Ohio
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Paz and his popular running mate, ex-police Capt. Edman Lara, galvanized working-class and rural voters outraged over record inflation and an acute dollar shortage that has sapped food and fuel supplies. But for all their disillusionment with the...
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Centrist Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia election, ending two decades of leftist rule
Centrist Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday, defeating conservative rival Jorge ‘Tuto’ Quiroga, as the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation helped propel the end of nearly two decades of leftist rule. Paz, a senator...
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Who is Bolivia's new president, Rodrigo Paz?
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WDEZ - Wisconsin
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By Monica Machicao and Lucinda Elliott LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz, who claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff, is the son of a former president of the Andean nation who was born in exile from its military...
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Can Bolivia’s new leader fix an economy on the brink?
Bolivians today elected a pro-business centre-right senator as their new President, ending two decades of socialist rule that have left the South American nation deep in economic crisis. With 97% of ballots counted, Rodrigo Paz had 54.5% of the...
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Trump’s escalation in the Caribbean – US imperialism attempts to reassert control over its ‘backyard’
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In Defence of Marxism
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The escalation of US imperialist bullying against Venezuela, which started in August, has reached fever pitch and now involves the bullying of Colombia as well. As well as a military build-up in the Caribbean, the blowing up of speedboats,...
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Who is Rodrigo Paz, centrist Senator who ended 20 years of leftist rule in Bolivia? His father was...
Home News Who is Rodrigo Paz, centrist Senator who ended 20 years of leftist rule in Bolivia? His father was... Rodrigo Paz, whose victory marks a historic shift in Bolivian politics, won the country's presidential polls on the back of his...
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