Vote counting has started in Bolivia’s presidential runoff which will determine which of two pro-business candidates will take office amid the deepest economic crisis in forty years. Senator Rodrigo Paz of the Christian Democratic Party and former President Jorge Tuto Quiroga of the Alianza Libre coalition both pledge to curb government spending,

Rodrigo Paz, a right-leaning centrist candidate who had emerged as a surprise front-runner in Bolivia’s presidential election, defeated his conservative opponent in a runoff that ended nearly two deca...

One of Paz's main challenges at the start of his tenure will be to find a way out of the fuel crisis and overcome a severe shortage of dollars -- the result of large government subsidies and a decreas...