Indigeneity, Race, and the Media from the Perspective of the 2019 Political Crisis In Bolivia

This article analyses the disputes over images related to indigeneity and plurinationalism in the post-electoral crisis in Bolivia, focusing mainly on the realm of social media. It pays particular attention to how images such as memes, photographs, and videos produced and circulated by the movement for “democracy” opposed to Evo Morales and by sectors of the Right, project ideals of national unity based on racialised imaginaries that tend to obliterate references to plurinationalism. I also analyse the dichotomous ways in which multitudes and episodes of violence were represented by the two main sides in the conflict, such as the references to “mobs” and “hordes” versus “civic movements” and “resistance” respectively. I conclude by considering examples of promotional materials that the current interim government of President Jeanine Añez has developed since its inauguration, in order to reflect on the ways in which these display certain images of the “permitted Indian” for the national project that the social sector represented by her government is beginning to outline

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• Introduction

  Open Access•Jens Andermann, Rory O’bryen•Journal of Latin American…•2025

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• Institutionalised Indigeneity, State Formation and Crisis

  Open Access•Aiko Ikemura Amaral, Angus Mcnelly•Bulletin of Latin American Research•2026

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• Grounding fire

  Open Access•Mareike Winchell•Geoforum•2025

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• Untangling anti-Indian narratives in the 2019 Bolivian crisis

  Ximena Cordova•Latin American and Caribbean…•2025

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• Rethinking Indigenous Politics in the Era of the “Indio Permitido”

  Charles R Hale, Charles Hale•NACLA Report on the Americas•2004

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• The Indigenous State

  Open Access•Nancy Postero•The Indigenous State•2017

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