This was a process that ushered in a new phase of people-building of the Democratic and Cultural Revolution, which “continues under the leadership of Brother @LuchoXBolivia,” the head of state wrote on his Twitter account.
At the inauguration of his second term as president on January 22, 2010, the leader of indigenous descent declared that the colonial state had died and with it was born the plurinational, autonomous and solidary state, “a colonial state that has left us Bolivians the last country in Latin America,” he said.
The current Bolivian Constitution states in its first article that from that date the country ceased to be a republic in order to become a unitary welfare state with plurinational law, community, free, independent, sovereign, democratic, intercultural and with autonomies. Plans for this Sunday to commemorate the date include an ancestral ceremony of gratitude to Pachamama, a message from President Luis Arce to the nation, and a massive parade through La Paz’s central avenues.
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