oposição entre “Estado Instrumental” e “Estado Plurinacional” em sociedades “abigarradas”

notas sobre o processo político na Bolívia contemporânea

Abstract

The article analyzes the specificities of the historical-political process that shaped the Latin American national states, in order to detail some of the characteristics resulting from their (de)formation. There for, methodologically, contributions and perceptions made by LatinoAmericanists authors are mobilized, emphasizing the weight of the structural conditions inherited from Colonialism in the consolidation of an "instrumental" State, with a strong "abigarramiento" and that tends to perpetuate the situation of "incomplete independence" of Latin American nations. The objective is to present and interrelate this conceptual basis to detail the "case" of the Bolivian [Pluri]National State, which, after a secular history as an instrumental state in a society abigarrada tries, in the wake of the new constitutional text of 2009, advance in the process of consolidating a propositional resistance to the logic and "traditional" agencies of political power. It is, therefore, an analytical exercise that objectives, based on the study of the Bolivian case, to expose critical argumentative constructions about the paradox between the "State-centric" heritage and the "Plurinational" reality of Latin American societies.