This footage was filmed and produced 7 August 2023.

The Movement towards Socialism (MAS) determined the “self-expulsion” of the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, for not attending the national congress of the ruling party.

“The self-expulsion of Luis Arce Catacora and David Choquehuanca for not attending the MAS-IPSP congress is acknowledged,” read Roger Wilcarani, member of the party's Organic Commission.

The congress is held in the town of Lauca N, in the Tropics of Cochabamba. The political and union bastion of former president Evo Morales (2006-2019). Rejected by Arce and the main social, indigenous and union organizations because they considered that they were not properly represented.

SHOTLIST
1. Fragment of the final declaration of the MAS Congress urging the expulsion of officials, Evo Morales and Luis Arce at the MAS Act (January 23, 2021)
SOUNDBITE (SPANISH): MAS Spokesperson:
"The corresponding disciplinary and ethics court is instructed to initiate legal actions for the expulsion of the MAS - IPSP instrument to elected authorities who were denounced during the development of this commission, as well as to send the documentation indicated in the complaints or expulsions to deputies, senators, elected authorities for betrayal of our political instrumentalization of the MAS - IPSP.";
2. Several of Evo Morales and Luis Arce in Argentina (November 6, 2020);
3. Various lectures by Luis Arce (October 11, 2020);
4. Various actions by Luis Arce in Bolivia (September 16, 2020);
5. Various from the Government Palace of Bolivia (August 7, 2023).