Disputa del Estado-nación y plurinacionalidad en el nuevo constitucionalismo latinoamericano: la autonomía indígena Charagua-Iyambae (Bolivia)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper analyzes the evolution from the Latin American nation-state to the plurinational state, focusing on Bolivia and the indigenous autonomy of Charagua Iyambae.From a historical-constitutional perspective, it examines how nineteenth-century criollo constitutionalism established a monocultural and monist state model that excluded indigenous peoples from citizenship and the social pact. In contrast, the new Latin American constitutionalism has introduced plurinationality as a foundational principle of a state that recognizes cultural, legal, and territorial diversity. The study argues that plurinationality represents a political and legal process of state decolonization, aimed at rearticulating political unity with normative pluralism. Within this framework, the Guaraní autonomy of Charagua Iyambae stands out as the most advanced institutional expression of indigenous self-government in Bolivia. The analysis concludes that, despite material and administrative constraints, Bolivian plurinationality has transformed the foundations of Latin American constitutionalism by incorporating diversity as a structural principle of the state and by positioning indigenous peoples as constituent subjects.
Source: Cuadernos Manuel Giménez Abad
Author: Rubén Martínez Dalmau
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7116063630