Hay quienes piensan que la reforma constitucional promovida por el presidente Evo Morales, en Bolivia, es comparable a la guerra de la Reconquista española, interpretada como campaña ¿étnica? ¿religiosa? destinada a expulsar militarmente a los “moros”…

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Expone tal teoría, en el New York Times, un jesuita ¿catalán?, Xavier Albó, que no comparte la tesis de quienes temen que Bolivia se esté separando paso a paso “del resto del mundo”:

“Bolivia, little by little, is shutting itself off from the world,” said Gonzalo Chávez, a Harvard-educated economist at the Catholic University of La Paz, who sees economic growth falling to 2 percent this year from about 6 percent in 2008.
But others say the new Constitution addresses underrepresentation of Indians, pointing to articles that would reserve seats for them in Congress and in other areas of the fast-growing bureaucracy. Even Mr. Morales’s cabinet has just two Indian ministers; his top aides, the vice president (a former guerrilla) and the chief of staff (a former military officer), are light-skinned intellectuals.
In symbolic importance, said Xavier Albó, a Jesuit scholar and linguist, the new Constitution may be the equivalent of Spain’s Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors in 1492. But instead of the blood spilled in that process, Mr. Albó said, Bolivia is “advancing in a democratic process that does not exclude or subjugate anyone.” [New York Times, 25 enero 2009, Bolivians Ratify New Constitution].

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