(13 Aug 2025)
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La Paz, Bolivia – 12 August 2025
1. Presidential candidate Samuel Doria Medina waving to supporters
2. Women holding flowers and chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) "Samuel President"
3. Supporters throw petals and hug Doria Medina
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"Not only are we going to change the president, but a cycle will end and another will begin. The MAS (Movement to Socialism), which has had a lot of strength for 20 years, has burst, and as analysts have said, it will have only symbolic representation. It will no longer have an important presence."
5. Various of Doria Medina waving to supporters
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"There are good things that Mr. Milei or Mr. Trump do but we are going to create our own government, a capitalist economy with a human face. There will be a competitive market economy open to the world, but we will also care for vulnerable sectors, providing them with health and education so they can rise."
7. Bolivian women in traditional dresses dancing
8. Traditional dancers
9. Election posters featuring Doria Medina
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Samuel Doria Medina, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"We hope to win in the first round because, to avoid fraud, to avoid, problems, the population knows that we need to give strength to the government and have a majority in Congress."
11. Supporters chant UPSOUND (Spanish) "I can feel it, the president has arrived"
12. Supporters rallying in downtown La Paz
13. Parade float with traditional dolls and the name of Doria Medina party: "Avanzada Bolivia" or "Bolivia Ahead" banner
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) :Sonia Trigo Hinojosa, 69, Doria Medina supporter:
"This gentleman is supporting because he is a great businessman, and a businessman is not going to jump in or steal. At least he is going to support us. I believe there will be dollars. There will be jobs. There will be for the people who really need it."
15. Various of musicians playing traditional Andean instruments
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Hector Angel Saunero, 70, Doria Medina supporter:
"It’s like when someone is dying, he needs urgent surgery, otherwise he will die. It’s the same (with Bolivia) and that’s what Samuel is going to do. That’s why we think it’s the best proposal at this moment."
21. Traffic in La Paz beneath a campaign billboard featuring Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga
22. Supporters of Doria Medina march by a poster of presidential candidate Manfred Reyes Villa ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
The right-wing frontrunner in Bolivia’s elections, businessman Samuel Doria Medina, walked through La Paz on Tuesday with hundreds of followers during his last day of campaigning in the city.
Doria Medina has vowed to slash fuel subsidies, dismantle inefficient state-owned companies, let foreign investors mine Bolivia’s abundant lithium reserves, and reorient the nation’s foreign policy toward the United States after years of its alignment with China and Russia.
Medina, 66, a former minister of planning from 1991-1993, made his fortune in cement and owns Bolivia’s Burger King franchise. Dubbed the “eternal candidate,” he lost to Evo Morales in 2005, 2009 and 2014.
Bolivia is going through a crisis, marked by a scarcity of U.S. dollars which has hampered diesel fuel imports, leading to fuel shortages and raising questions about the ability of import-dependent Bolivia to keep subsidizing its staples.
AP Video by Victor R. Caivano
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