(25 Aug 2025)
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La Paz, Bolivia – 25 August 2025
1. Various of Bolivian presidential candidate Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga speaking before an interview with The Associated Press
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"The waste and theft will stop. We will reduce the deficit from 10% – 5% next year to 3% by 2026, funded by an international program that allows you to return dollars to savers, end inflation, and have the means to import diesel and gasoline without corruption and without lines."
3. Various of Quiroga during interview
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"Who has the proposal to create a liberal proprietary revolution in Bolivia, handing over the property titles for lithium, iron, and gas to every Bolivian over 18 years old? That’s what people want to discuss. Tell me if that idea of giving the people what belongs to the people is left-wing or right-wing. It’s a liberal proprietary revolution."
5. Various of Quiroga during interview
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"Do I like a one-party regime, politically? No, but China is our main trading partner and I will make a free trade agreement with China and I will ask them to come and invest because I am not a democratic evangelist who will go to China or Russia or Vietnam or Azerbaijan to tell them what to do."
7. Quiroga during interview
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"Maduro (Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro) is the head of a criminal drug trafficking conglomerate, he is the head of the Cartel of the Suns, and he stole the presidency."
9. Quiroga during interview
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga, Bolivian presidential candidate:
"He (former president Evo Morales) doesn’t show up, he has to show up, and there is a warrant. Everything is done according to the law. I will enforce the law in every square meter of Bolivia at all times for everyone, period."
11. Various of Quiroga during an interview
STORYLINE:
Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was once seen as a sideshow in Bolivia’s presidential races, his pleas for free markets and small government falling on deaf ears in a country dominated by leftism.
Now — after three failed presidential bids, the collapse of Bolivia’s long-ruling leftist party and a successful campaign promising to rescue the nation from its worst economic crisis in decades — the country’s most right-wing candidate is one of two men headed to an unprecedented runoff election to lead the landlocked nation of 12 million.
In an interview on Monday with The Associated Press, Quiroga vowed to reshape Bolivia’s state-directed economy into a capitalist order based on markets and private property.
Quiroga’s most drastic proposal, evoking the mass privatization of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, involves transferring shares in Bolivia’s abundant natural resources from the government to individual citizens — placing the majority of the economy in private hands and dismantling the key pillar of the Movement Toward Socialism, or MAS, party that has governed Bolivia for almost two decades.
He promised to carry out a liberal ownership revolution, giving every Bolivian over 18 individual property rights over lithium, iron, and gas.
Quiroga was a former vice president who briefly held the presidency after then-President Hugo Banzer, an ex-military dictator, stepped down for health reasons in 2001.
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