The Endless Transition. The “Oligarchic Insurrection” Against the Plurinational State

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  • Rafael Bautista S. Taller de la Descolonizacion - Universidad Pedagógica de Bolivia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2024.342

Keywords:

decolonization, Geopolitics, coup in Bolivia, oligarchic insurrection

Abstract

The coup that took place in Bolivia in October 2019 cannot be approached as if it were a "classic coup", since it is inscribed in the new conceptual definition of what a "soft coup" means, within the terminology used by the imperial "smart power". It was planned as a "color revolution" designed to implode democratic processes from within. Precisely the novelty of this coup modality is one of the factors that confused many analysts, because if what we have is a classic idea of a "coup", it is difficult to understand this type of modality developed by the Empire to exercise a new type of control and domination of its peripheral sphere. In this sense, the definition of "infinite transition" is intended to point out the deceitful character used by the coup government to define itself as "transitional" when, in fact, it attributed to itself a state behavior that belied its pretended transitory character. 

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Published

2024-11-25

Issue

Bolivian Studies Journal Vol. 30, 2024

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