Bolivia's Authoritarian Drift

Toribia Lero Quispe

2023 OFF in Oslo

Toribia Lero Quispe is a Bolivian assemblywoman and opposition leader whose election was found to be tampered with in the 2019 electoral fraud committed by strongman Evo Morales. Despite routinely facing violence, intimidation, and widespread judicial persecution, Lero Quispe took to the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum stage, highlighting the democratic movement happening in Bolivia to protect ordinary citizens against tyranny.

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Toribia

Lero Quispe

Bolivian assembly woman and opposition leader

Toribia Lero Quispe is an indigenous rights, women’s rights, and pro-democracy advocate from Bolivia. She serves as a member of the country’s Legislative Assembly and has become a leader of the democratic opposition. For opposing the authoritarianism of Morales’ Movement Toward Socialism party, Lero Quispe and her fellow Bolivian Democrats routinely face violence, intimidation, and widespread judicial persecution.