Pensar el antagonismo territorial en Bolivia: entre el estallido de la Asamblea Constituyente y el poder del voto rural

Abstract

We centre our attention in the period of offensive action of the region of the "half moon" (Pando, Beni, Santa Cruz and Tarija) after that the Movement to the Socialism was arriving at the national Bolivian government at the end of the year 2005. Particularly, in the phase in which the Constituent Assembly fails because of the demand sucrense for the capital. We examine why of such a failure, the alignment and the identity of the principal regional actors, and then analyze the discontinuity between urban and rural area expressed in the electoral contest and in a deeply polarized scene. Thus, we observe the antagonistic borders, marked by breaks of class, ethnic and territorial; very important, more even than the dispute between departments, to understand the Evo Morales's first presidency in Bolivia.