Al Jazeera English published this video item, entitled “Bolivia: Exile or Return | People and Power” – below is their description.
In late 2019, mass protests triggered by a fiercely disputed election forced Bolivia’s first Indigenous president into exile after 14 years in power.
As Evo Morales took stock in Argentina – and weighed up the prospects of a possible return – an interim government led by a former opposition senator, Jeanine Anez, announced plans for fresh elections, delayed until October 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In Morales’s absence, supporters of his Movement for Socialism (MAS) rallied behind two new leaders, former Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca and Luis Arce, previously finance minister under Morales. Arce would soon be nominated as the party’s presidential candidate in the poll, with Choquehuanca standing as his deputy.
But as the election drew near, amid rising social unrest and against the backdrop of the pandemic, no one knew whether the MAS campaign would be able to reignite the passion that had first swept Morales to power in 2006.
People & Power sent filmmaker Rodrigo Vasquez behind the scenes to see if Bolivia’s Indigenous movement could pull off a remarkable comeback.
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Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, the second largest in South America after Brazil, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation by area.
Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The constitutional capital is Sucre, while the seat of government and executive capital is La Paz.
Its geography varies from the peaks of the Andes in the West, to the Eastern Lowlands, situated within the Amazon Basin.
The country’s population, estimated at 11 million, is multiethnic, including Amerindians, Mestizos, Europeans, Asians and Africans. Spanish is the official and predominant language, although 36 indigenous languages also have official status, of which the most commonly spoken are Guarani, Aymara and Quechua languages.
Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
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The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
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In People and Power, the filmmaker sheds light on the lives of some of the most affluent personalities who misuse their power, which ultimately affects innocent people. Series first aired in 2012, on al Jazeera English and continues.
