plurinational

• As Bolivian author and activist Pablo Mamani explained, "The indigenous appears as a mainstay of the new plurinational state, but in practice is reduced to a few representatives in the four branches of government."
• Oscar Ortiz, president of the Podemos-controlled Senate threatend on September 10 to intensify the violent protests if MAS insisted on its campaign to approve the new constitution, which would declare Bolivia a "plurinational state". —  Dandelion Salad
• The new constitution is at the heart of the process of change, aiming to institutionalise state control of natural resources and land reform, as well as establish a "plurinational" state to overcome the exclusion of indigenous peoples. —  Dandelion Salad
• This vote comes as other nations in Latin America have moved, since the 1990s, toward constitutional revisions that recognize "plurinational" states, beginning with Colombia in —  t r u t h o u t
• The central demand of the broad movement that brought Correa to power is for a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution that breaks up the current dysfunctional state, ends the reign of the "partidocracia," refounds the country as a plurinational, participatory democracy, reclaims Ecuadorian sovereignty and uses the state to advance social and economic policies that benefit the people, not the oligarchy. —  Kafila

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