Más MAS? Bolivia’s election
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The Economist
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
After last year’s vote was marred by fraud allegations, the electorate is split ahead of Sunday’s poll: will the country return the socialist MAS party of exiled leader Evo Morales to power? A private tutor to the rich and anxious reveals the costs—to students and tutors—of heightened academic pressure. And a new book yields a cat’s-eye view of 18th-century London.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:09.1 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.7 | As more and more people go to university, competition gets tougher. |
| 0:22.6 | That academic arms race has driven a boom in private tutoring for those who can afford |
| 0:27.4 | it. |
| 0:28.4 | A tutor to the rich and anxious tells us about the dark sides of all that pressure. |
| 0:34.8 | And a notable character pops up in Christopher Smart's famed and sprawling poem, Uelate |
| 0:40.5 | Agno, his feline companion, Jeffrey. |
| 0:43.4 | Now a new book reimagines Jeffrey's life, giving readers a cat's eye view of 18th century |
| 0:49.0 | London. |
| 0:55.7 | But first, on Sunday, Bolivians will vote in a twice-posed-poned presidential election. |
| 1:06.0 | Political tensions have been high since a chaotic poll last year. |
| 1:10.4 | Avon Morales, a socialist and the country's first indigenous president, had been in power |
| 1:15.5 | since 2005. |
| 1:17.4 | His time should have been up, but he ignored a 2016 referendum that denied him the right |
| 1:22.8 | to run again. |
| 1:24.5 | The vote was marred by accusations that the count was rigged and protests erupted. |
| 1:31.2 | The organization of American states conducted an audit and appeared to confirm that Mr. Morales |
| 1:37.0 | had attempted fraud. |
| 1:39.4 | When the commander of the armed forces called on him to resign, he complied. |
| 1:44.2 | Jeanine Aignes, a right-wing senator, then became president. |
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