The return of the left to power in Bolivia is a product of the role played by social movement organisations of workers, peasants and indigenous people in organising militant resistance to the usurpation of power by the extreme right wing.
On 12 November 2019, Evo Morales was on an air force jet on his way to exile in Mexico. He stepped down when the chief of the armed forces “suggested” that he resign after protests over unproved allegations of electoral fraud. Nearly a year later, he returned to Bolivia through the land frontier accompanied by Alberto Fernández, the President of Argentina. From there, accompanied by a three-day 800-vehicle caravan, stopping at various points, including Orinoca, the rural community where he was born and raised, Morales went to Chapare, the place where he came of age politically as the leader of the coca-growing peasants. A day earlier, the candidate of the Movimiento al Socialismo (Movement Towards Socialism–MAS), Luis Arce Catacora, the form