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How Bolivia’s Economic Crisis Is Shaping the Election

A poster in La Paz, Bolivia, calling for people to vote in the presidential election.Photographer: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images

Bolivians are voting for president and congress on Aug. 17 amid unrest, shortages and the steepest inflation in more than three decades. Economic frustrations threaten to end the rule of the socialist party, which has held power almost without interruption since 2006.

Here’s what to know about the election.