LATIN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM AND HISTORY OF POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION:

THE NEED TO OVERCOME THE ENGINE ROOM TO ACHIEVE EFFECTIVE PLURINATIONALITIES

Abstract

This article critically analyzes the construction of New Latin American
Constitutionalism from the perspective of an engine room. For this, we initially approach the formation of its historical evolution and construction of essential characteristics for identification (what we treat as common and material elements and identifying characteristics) and, later, we will discuss its three stages of manifestation: multicultural constitutionalism (1982 to 1988); pluricultural constitutionalism (1988 to 2005); and plurinational constitutionalism (2006 to 2009). As the purpose of this paper is to discuss its
turning points, we argue that the phenomenon navigates in cabotage in its paradigmatic transition, that is, needs to reflect on the historical Latin American engine room to achieve
effective solidarity. At the end, there is a striking feature of constitutionalism in this region, that reinforces a dimension of coloniality of power, and it is necessary to recognize the existence of historically hypertrophied Executives and compromised Constitutions when analyzing the dogmatic position that such Constitutions aim to effect, what the chilean constituent has been doing so far. Therefore, it is an exploratory research of the phenomenon, with theoretical-descriptive methodology and reflexive critical proposal about the effectiveness of their recent promulgations in Latin America, being such critical understanding explored by the researches that deal with about this phenomenon.