THE CONSOLIDATION PROCESS OF MONKOXI'S NATION INDIGENOUS AUTONOMY

Abstract

In this article we will discuss the context and mobilization of the Indigenous Central Indigenous Organization of the Indigenous Communities of Lomerío (CICOL), which fights for indigenous rights in Bolivia, its political-administrative structure, and understand the specific elements of the confrontations with the Bolivian State. discussion on the process of decolonization and indigenous autonomies that go beyond legal and institutional aspects. I use as sources of analysis: the minutes of the indigenous assemblies on the process of autonomy, documents of indigenous organizations Chiquitana Indigenous Organization (OICH) and CICOL, the speech of indigenous leaders in the communities where I did field research, the speech of the Center's lawyer of Legal Studies and Social Research (CEJIS) and the advisor of the Support to the Indigenous Peasant of the Bolivian Oriente (APCOB), status of the indigenous Monkoxi of Lomerío, consult sites of Cedla, Clacso, Fundación Tierra, Observatory of the rights of indigenous peoples and Ministry of the Autonomies of the Bolivian State, as well as authors who discuss the emergence of autonomy and autonomy regimes in a Latin American context. The research, in addition to documentary and bibliographic sources, also has an empirical basis based on interviews of leaders and elders who accompany the process of autonomy of this indigenous ethnicity in Bolivia, and therefore, to research and qualitative perspective, field in the form of interviews and conversation. Or does the main problem address the question of what kind of indigenous autonomy is being pursued within the Bolivian Plurinational State?