Las luchas "cívicas" y las no tan cívicas: Santa Cruz de la Sierra (1957-59)
Abstract
El artículo analiza el conflicto generado alrededor de la distribución de las regalías del petróleo a fines de la década del 50 entre el Comité Pro-Santa Cruz (CPSC) liderado por Melchor Pinto Parada y el gobierno del Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), en ese momento presidido por Hernán Siles Zuazo. Relaciona esta lucha con el proceso de extensión de la ciudadanía política puesta en práctica con el voto universal por vez primera en Bolivia en 1956. Esto coincidió con la aprobación del Código del Petróleo y dio la oportunidad al CPSC generar alrededor de la consigna de las regalías para obras públicas urbanas un amplio movimiento de oposición al MNR desde un lugar autodenominado como "apolítico" pero que en realidad funcionaba como supra-político desde donde los líderes regionales pedían cuentas a los representantes democráticamente electos.
This article examines the dispute, concerning the oil royalties distribution, between the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee (CPSC), led by Melchor Pinto, and the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR) government, chaired by Hernán Siles. The author relates this conflict to the process of citizens-hip policy extension implemented with universal suffrage for the first time in Bolivia in 1956.These events concur with the passage of the Petroleum Code and so gave CPSC the opportunity to generate, around the slogan of royalties for urban public Works, a large opposition movement against the governing party. Which was self-described as an "apolitical" movement, but actually camed out as supra-political, for it was a tribune from which regional political leaders asked democratically elected representatives for called for regional accounts.
This article examines the dispute, concerning the oil royalties distribution, between the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee (CPSC), led by Melchor Pinto, and the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (MNR) government, chaired by Hernán Siles. The author relates this conflict to the process of citizens-hip policy extension implemented with universal suffrage for the first time in Bolivia in 1956.These events concur with the passage of the Petroleum Code and so gave CPSC the opportunity to generate, around the slogan of royalties for urban public Works, a large opposition movement against the governing party. Which was self-described as an "apolitical" movement, but actually camed out as supra-political, for it was a tribune from which regional political leaders asked democratically elected representatives for called for regional accounts.
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