Indigenous presence in Bolivia''s new Constitution
With the approval of Bolivia (Plurinational State of)’s Constitution of 2009 the new government of Evo Morales brought radical changes to the country and at the same time it was the product of many conflicts in Bolivian society. The major change was the establishment of a Constituent Assembly and the writing of the new Constitution with indigenous participation. This paper tries to look at two basic conflicts inherent in the Constitution as a text and as a reflection of social antagonisms: the historical indigenous point of view and the difficulty of forming a common subject, a “we” [the people] and the role of the State as a unifying institution and at the same time as an entity in the making.