Presented this Sunday on the state-run Bolivia TV channel, the documentary chronicles the most tense and conflictive moments faced by the Movement Toward Socialism leader.

The documentary remembers that, in the October 2020 general elections, 55.11 percent of the population voted for Arce and David Choquehuanca to govern the country and complete the tasks left unfinished after the November 2019 coup d’etat.

Arce took over a country with the highest COVID-19 fatality rate in the region, alarming inflation, unemployment, and “gross acts of corruption,” leading to five urgent challenges.

These were: resolving the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences; supporting homeless families; restoring the healthcare and education systems, as well as interrupted social programs; reactivating the economy; and generating employment.

In this context, the fatality rate fell from seven percentage points to one percent nationwide, and the restoration of the Productive Communitarian Social Economic Model enabled economic growth of 6.1 percent in 2021.

However, that same year, threats began to destabilize the country and shorten the presidential term with episodes of social confrontation and roadblocks that generated millions in economic losses. This hybrid war, planned and deployed by the right, the United States, and forces aligned with former President Morales, laid the groundwork for dollar and fuel shortages and rising inflation.

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