¿De la disrupción a la institucionalización? El caso del movimiento indígena de Bolivia

Abstract

This article explores the relationship among the institutionalization of Bolivian indigenous movement and its dynamics in the sense of the employment of extrainstitutional strategies and internal cohesion in the period 1997–2014, to capture possible changes in institutionalization with the arrival to power of Evo Morales in 2006. It concludes that the indigenous movement went through institutionalization under Morales’s government, which is reflected in the growing number of indigenous representatives and participation of main indigenous organizations in state structures. However, institutionalization was a selective process that preferred campesino organizations to indigenous sector ones, which instead experienced co-optation. That selectiveness had different implications on mobilization. The favorable politics and access to the state structure moderated the campesino sector, while indigenous organizations faced governmental strategies of division.