Empoderamiento campesino con base étnica. Relaciones políticas CSUTCB-Gobierno
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Temas Sociales
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Las relaciones políticas entre la CSUTCB y el gobierno del MAS se gestaron desde la crisis política de inicios del siglo XXI, cuyo punto de inflexión fue la Guerra del Gas (2003). Posteriormente el Pacto de Unidad (2004) afianzaría con mayor nitidez los vínculos de unidad político-sindical en pro de un proyecto de Estado Plurinacional, con base en una identidad étnico-cultural que desembocaría en el llamado proceso de cambio y del que se constituirían en férreos defensores pese a los desaciertos e improvisaciones en las políticas públicas, lo que ocasionaría desgaste institucional y pérdida de autonomía sindical. En épocas electorales, el voto consigna prevaleció frente al voto racional, debido a una actitud de adoctri-namiento sindical que restringió el derecho al disenso político-ideológico, por lo que el imaginario social cambió en ligera desventaja para el gobierno; ambos actores políticos necesitan evaluar sus comportamientos políticos para no perder legitimidad ante las bases indígena-campesinos y la propia sociedad civil.
The political relations between the CSUTCB and the MAS government were gestated in the political crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, whose turning point was the Gas War (2003) and later the Pact of Unity (2004), which reinforced with greater clarity the links of political and peasant union unity in favor of the project of a Plurinational State based on an ethnic-cultural identity, resulting in the so called 'process of change'. The CSUTCB became its firm defenders, despite the errors and improvisations in public policies, which led to institutional exhaustion and the loss of union autonomy. In electoral contexts, the bloc vote prevailed over rational voting, due to an attitude of union indoctrination which limited the right to political and ideological dissent; hence, the social imaginary changed with a slight disadvantage for the government. Both these political actors need to evaluate their political conduct in order to avoid losing legitimacy with their indigenous and peasant grass roots and with civil society in general. .
The political relations between the CSUTCB and the MAS government were gestated in the political crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, whose turning point was the Gas War (2003) and later the Pact of Unity (2004), which reinforced with greater clarity the links of political and peasant union unity in favor of the project of a Plurinational State based on an ethnic-cultural identity, resulting in the so called 'process of change'. The CSUTCB became its firm defenders, despite the errors and improvisations in public policies, which led to institutional exhaustion and the loss of union autonomy. In electoral contexts, the bloc vote prevailed over rational voting, due to an attitude of union indoctrination which limited the right to political and ideological dissent; hence, the social imaginary changed with a slight disadvantage for the government. Both these political actors need to evaluate their political conduct in order to avoid losing legitimacy with their indigenous and peasant grass roots and with civil society in general. .
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No. 42
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Movimientos sociales, organizaciones sindicales, empoderamiento indígena-campesino, proceso de cambio, democracia popular, ideología de la reciprocidad vinculante, políticas de gobierno, Social movements, union organizations, indigenous-peasant empowerment, process of change, popular democracy, ideology of binding reciprocity