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Bolivia holds a divisive popular vote for its top judges, offering lessons for the region

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Bolivia holds a divisive popular vote for its top judges, offering lessons for the region.

Only four out of nine seats on the powerful Constitutional Court are up for grabs.

Voters say the elections have had the opposite effect, turning their courts from neutral arbiters into political prizes.

Mexico will, too, after former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pushed through an overhaul of the justice system.

Evo Morales' decision to run again in 2019 brought a precipitous end to his remarkable 14-year tenure.

Morales resigned under pressure from the military and went into exile.

Morales now finds himself on the receiving end of the judiciary he overhauled.

“They've been trying to destroy me morally, legally and politically,” Morales told the AP .

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