Anticolonial revolt in 21th century Bolivia: the continuance of "internal conflict" and the defeat neoliberal parties, 2000-2003

In order to explain the “changing process” that is nowadays experiencing Bolivia is necessary to go back to the origins of contemporary ethnic nationalism (post-52 period). In this socio-political rising process the whole of the indigenous movement has contributed, starting from diverse ideological positions and directing towards an horizon of self-determination in the beginning of the 21th century. This process expresssed itself in the knowned as “Water Conflict” (2000) and finally in the “Gas Conflict” of 2003 by means of a general urban and rural indigenous uprise (to which the middle class mestizo adhered). An anticolonial and indianist revolt and a siege to colonial power upsurged that covers this period up to the fall of one of the most bloody neoliberal governments of the last decades. In this way a new period, characterized by the concealment of a president with aymara origins and a syndcalist and socialist political standpoint (2005). Although other leftwing political sectors have contributed extensively to the Plurinacional state construction process, the Indianist and Katarist contribution is undeniable. In this article we enphasize likewise in the “decolonization process” and the construction of a true Plurinacional and Communitarian state.