Sobre el imaginario político latinoamericano y Evo Morales

Abstract

El imaginario político latinoamericano se asienta sobre unos marcos categoriales y unos presupuestos conceptuales que son demasiado estrechos y reducidos. La actitud de no cuestionarlos consolida los intereses de los grupos dominantes que se benefician del actual sistema capitalista. Se hace necesario contar con más elementos y más variables de análisis para comprender mejor la práctica política y estudiar mejor la realidad desigual y la cultura autoritaria y no democrática de América Latina.

The Latin American political imaginary settles on categorical frames and conceptual assumptions that are too narrow and limited. The attitude of not questioning them consolidates the interests of the dominant groups that benefit from the current capitalist system. It becomes necessary to rely on more elements and variables of analysis to better understand the political practice and study the unequal reality and the authoritarian and not democratic culture of Latin America. Taking Evo Morales’s Bolivia as background, it is needed to visualize limits and conditions both external and internal: among others, the economic context, the political elitism, the urgency of claiming a participative democracy of people, etc. With them it will be possible to better accompany the development of a more popular and liberating politics.