Arce sworn in
La Paz: Bolivia’s Luis Arce was sworn in as president yesterday, ushering the country’s powerful socialist party back into power a year after longterm leftist leader Evo Morales was ousted amid angry protests that sparked off a political crisis.
Arce (57) was inaugurated in a ceremony in the highland city of La Paz, in front of heads of state from Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia and Spain, as well as senior officials from Chile, Iran and the government of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.
The unassuming and bespectacled former economy minister, feted as the architect of Bolivia’s rapid growth under Morales, comes into office facing the huge task of healing the divisions of a political crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. — Reuters