The social events of May 24, 2008 in Sucre-Bolivia

Abstract

This research has a highly complex object of study which resulted in a challenge for the team coordinator and the research team. The establishment of the Constituent Assembly in 2006, generated a set of expectations around the country, the possibility of leaving behind the water and gas war and above all ensure that the social sectors get an inclusive Political Constitutions, in other words the constructions of a social pact that allows after more than 180 years Bolivia as a Republic, a national cohesion. Because of the hegemonic political interests and lack of clarity of the opposition, the legitimate request to include an item in the debate of the assembly created an area of confusion within the constitutional assembly, so it‘s impossible to understand what happened on May 24, 2008 without doing a review from the Bolivian state and its political practices The conceptualization as racism of the social facts of May 24, 2008 was a heavy trial a priori the fact with the one we had to lead the work; our results lead us to discuss the political practices of the Bolivian state since 1825 and the genesis of it, the possibility of getting a test in which civil society and the state has a violent political practice is a contribution to search for the construction of citizenship.