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Significance
The clashes come amid fuel and food shortages and follow weeks of violence in the wake of contested elections on October 20, which ultimately pushed former President Evo Morales to resign. Morales’s self-proclaimed successor, Jeanine Anez, has established a right-wing government that claims to want to reunite the country, but appears determined to eradicate all trace of the previous administration.
Impacts
Unrest will hit Bolivia’s economic growth this year.
Investors are unlikely to respond favourably until political stability is restored.
A move by Morales to Argentina might present security risks.
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