LA PAZ – Bolivians vote Sunday in a high-stakes presidential election redo that could determine its democratic future and bring a return of socialism to the country as it struggles with a raging pandemic and protests over last year’s annulled ballot.Bolivia, once one of the most politically volatile countries in Latin America, experienced a rare period of stability under former President Evo Morales, the country’s first Indigenous president who resigned and fled the country late last year after his claimed election win was annulled amid allegations of fraud.
His ouster set off a period of unrest that caused at least 36 deaths. Morales called his ouster a coup. Sunday’s vote is a re-run of last year’s election and an attempt to reset.