Abstract

KENNEMORE, Amy  and  POSTERO, Nancy. Making sense of the 2019 electoral crisis in Bolivia: lessons from indigenous social movements. Foro int [online]. 2022, vol.62, n.4, pp.877-899.  Epub Dec 13, 2022. ISSN 0185-013X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/fi.v62i4.2951.

The political events of the 2019 electoral crisis in Bolivia continue to be the source of enormous debate. To understand the elections and the ongoing struggles to enact plurinationalism, we suggest looking beyond fraud/coup narratives to instead examine the complex positions of the social organizations in the years leading up to 2019. Focusing on the voices of Bolivian indigenous activists, we highlight three sites of contention: fragmentation of social movements, weakened democratic institutions, and polarization. What can the 2019 protests tell us about the conditions of possibility for the resurrected MAS party that regained power in the 2020 elections?

Keywords : Bolivia; plurinationalism; Morales; Movement Towards Socialism (MAS); social movements; democracy; elections.

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