In Plaza Murillo, the heart of Bolivia’s political capital, La Paz – and home to the presidential palace, parliament and the country’s main Catholic cathedral – time may be running out for a clock that runs backwards.
Installed atop of the congressional palace during the years of prosperity under former president Evo Morales, 65, the anti-clockwise timepiece was conceived as a symbol of the “decolonial and anti-imperialist” worldview championed by the left.