Bolivia’s biggest political party promised to legalize a toxic bleach to treat COVID-19. After winning a landslide victory, there is nothing to stop it

• Bolivia’s MAS party surged to victory in last week’s presidential election, pledging to rebuild a country devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and political turmoil.
• Their victory is also a triumph for a fringe alternative medicine movement embraced by the MAS that believes that consuming toxic bleach cures COVID-19.
• The substance, chlorine dioxide, is also known as “Miracle Mineral Solution” or MMS. It has no known medical use.
• MAS lawmakers pushed for MMS to be made available in clinics across the country, despite reports of people being killed and seriously injured consuming it.
• The last president, Jeanine Áñez, did not support the initiative. Now she has been swept from power, MAS can move ahead with its plans.

When Bolivia‘s Movimiento al Socialismo party (MAS) swept to victory in last week’s delayed presidential election, it was hailed by many as a triumph for ordinary people against a corrupt, right-wing…