Since the turbulent 2019 general elections in Bolivia — which culminated in an old-fashioned military coup to oust President Evo Morales — the country has remained under a black cloud. Self-declared President Jeanine Áñez went back on her own promise and decided to run for election this year, in a vote that is likely to be postponed, as the country attempts to juggle its own institutional nightmare during a deadly pandemic.
With 50,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases and 1,900 deaths, Bolivia can take some solace in the fact that its health situation has not been the unprecedented disaster seen...