(31 Jul 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Paz, Bolivia – 30 July 2025
1. Bolivia’s presidential candidate Samuel Doria Medina arriving at interview with The Associated Press
2. Doria Medina posing for photos
3. Doria Medina on a camera viewfinder
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"I believe that on August 17th, not only will we change the president, but there will be a change of cycle in Bolivia. And part of that change of cycle will be that there will be new actors. The MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) will be a thing of the past; it will be a minority."
5. Doria Medina during the interview
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"I wouldn’t be surprised if Evo Morales, if he stays in Bolivia, because I believe that when he sees the results of August 17th, he will seek refuge. He will go to Iran or Nicaragua."
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ARCHIVE: La Paz, Bolivia – 17 September 2024
7. Former President Evo Morales, at a Pachamama ceremony, waving to supporters, people chanting UPSOUND (Spanish): "Evo, Evo"
8. Morales leading an opposition march
ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Paz, Bolivia – 30 July 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"Bolivia had preferential treatment (with the United States), we didn’t pay tariffs, and we could enter the North American market. And with Evo Morales’ decision, that treatment was lost, and several thousand jobs were lost in Bolivia. Obviously, for that reason, we are going to seek an agreement so that Bolivian products can reach the largest market in the world."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: La Paz, Bolivia – 8 November 2020
10. Luis Arce gestures after being sworn in as president
11. Arce during the singing of the national anthem
ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Paz, Bolivia – 30 July 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"Traditionally, in Bolivia, in the last few weeks (before the election), is when most of the electorate makes their decision. We still have a significant percentage of undecided voters. So, I still hope that it can be resolved in the first round."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Alto, Bolivia – 30 July 2025
++PART NIGHT SHOTS++
13. Morales’ supporter Juana Machaca speaking UPSOUND (Spanish): "Support the null vote"
14. People with signs reading (Spanish): "Null: resistance vote"
15. People with Whipala flags
16. People dancing
STORYLINE:
It’s no surprise that Samuel Doria Medina is running for president of Bolivia: The 66-year-old multimillionaire ran as a center-right candidate in the elections of 2005, 2009, and 2014. He failed each time as Bolivia’s leftist ruling party, founded by Former President Evo Morales, maintained a tight grip over politics.
What’s unexpected is that next month, after almost two decades of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party in power, the long-shot candidate who promises to arrest Morales and cozy up to U.S. President Donald Trump stands a real chance of victory.
Polls show Doria Medina, owner of hotel chains and Bolivia’s Burger King restaurants, as a frontrunner in the Aug. 17 election.
"Not only will we change the president, but there will be a change of cycle in Bolivia," Doria Medina, a former cement magnate, told The Associated Press Wednesday from his sleek office on the 20th floor of one of Bolivia’s tallest towers that he helped build.
Doria Medina, a successful businessman and entrepreneur, is tapping public outrage over Bolivia’s worst economic crisis since 1991.
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