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Luis Arce | |
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| Born | 28 September 1963 La Paz, Bolivia |
| Nationality | Bolivian |
| Political orientation | Democratic socialism Anti-imperialism |
| Political party | Movement for Socialism |
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora (born 28 September 1963), is a Bolivian politician and economist who served as the 67th president of Bolivia from 2020 to 2025. A former member of the Movement for Socialism (MAS), he previously served as minister of finance—later minister of economy and public finance—from 2006 to 2017, and in 2019.
14-point program[edit | edit source]
In September 2022, Arce proposed the following 14-point program at the United Nations General Assembly:[1]
- Declaring the world a zone of peace
- Diverting military budgets to help poor people
- Universal health care
- Food sovereignty
- Rebuilding the economies of the imperial periphery
- Preventing global warming
- Nationalization of lithium
- Regionalization and demilitarization of the War on Drugs
- Access to the oceans for landlocked countries
- Widening visions of democracy to fulfill the rights of the majority
- Intergenerational solidarity
- Declaring a decade of depatriarchalization
- Rejecting unilateral sanctions
- The full validity of the UN charter
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Benjamin Norton (2022-09-28). "At UN, Bolivia presents revolutionary 14-point socialist program to transform world" Multipolarista. Archived from the original on 2022-10-01. Retrieved 2022-10-02.