In the labyrinth of miscegenation: critical study of a belligerent reality

Abstract

How to achieve a peaceful and productive coexistence despite the radical differences of race, class, worldview and religion? It is the problem that arises in almost every society when considering its future, but possibly no country is posed, due to a particularly complicated constellation, in a more dangerous way than Bolivia. This constitutes not only a balance around two views of society and country, but also a contribution to understanding this complex and contradictory social fabric —founded as a country in 1825 but formed much earlier— called Bolivia, because as long as the Bolivian does not question and contemplate himself to resolve his conflicts with the past, he will not be able to get out of the disputes that have been postponing him for a long time. Nor will he be able to build a coherent future, a future that, I believe, is neither that of mestizo social uniformity nor that of nations within a nation, but simply that of rational coexistence in freedom.