RUPTURE CONSTITUTIONALISM: Study of the Power Transition in Bolivia, in 2019
Coup d’Etat, Military, Rupture Constitutionalism, Symbolic Violence.
This thesis is an investigation of the domain of rupture constitutionalism through the lens of the decision taken by the First Anti-Corruption Sentencing Court of the Capital, which led to the conviction of Jeanine Añez along with other military personnel, and her participation in the seizure of power. The methodology used is interdisciplinary, combining the inductive case study approach with the hypothetical-deductive one – drawing inspiration from several theoretical contributions – with the aim of expanding the understanding of the events and factors of the case under analysis. For the theoretical deepening of the research, the dialectic of power in the formation of the plurinational State is used, aiming to establish a conception of constitutionalism of rupture when the actions of the military forces have a political-partisan spectrum. Coups like the one perpetrated in Bolivia summarize how elite power is sustained through the manipulation of rupture constitutionalism, using religion, disinformation, symbolic violence and military participation as tools for legitimizing and taking power.