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Judi Lynn

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Fri Feb 15, 2019, 12:10 AM Feb 2019

Bolivian Economy's Headwind Frightens Opposition

By Jorge Petinaud La Paz, Feb 12 (Prensa Latina) Bolivia's economic-political headwind and stability under President Evo Morales frightens the opposition in an election year, in which its candidates only demand exclusion from the ballots, without making a country proposal.

We all know that Carlos Mesa, Oscar Ortiz and Luis Revilla do not like Evo being on the election race, we know that; but the interesting thing would be that they start telling us what they are going to do with the country in case they govern, because in October there is no new referendum, in October there are general elections where employment policy, health policy, economic policy are going to be defined,' warned recently the young minister of Communication, Manuel Canelas.

What is certain is that the improvement in quality of life of all sectors in Bolivia, the political and social stability of the country and the economic successes recognized by international organizations grant ample favoritism to the binomial of the Movement for Socialism-Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of Peoples (MAS-IPSP), integrated by Morales and the vice-president, Alvaro Garcia Linera.

Only through the Bolivia Change Evo Complies program, a total of 8,797 works were executed between 2007 and July 2018 in the areas of education, sports, roads, production, basic sanitation and irrigation, as well as social and health infrastructures.

The South American nation also became the region's leader in economic growth as a result of the nationalization of its natural resources.

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https://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=38658&SEO=bolivian-economys-headwind-frightens-opposition

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