LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga was once seen as a sideshow in Bolivia’s presidential races, his pleas for free markets and small government falling on deaf ears in a country dominated by budget-busting populism.

Now, after three failed presidential bids, the collapse of Bolivia’s long-ruling leftist party and a brazen campaign promising to rescue the nation from its worst economic crisis in decades, Bolivia's most right-wing candidate is one of two men headed to an unprecedented runoff election to lead this landlocked nation of 12 million.

In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Quiroga vowed to reshape Bolivia’s state-directed economy into a capitalist order based on markets and private property.

“I am here to change everything, dramatically and radically,” Q

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