GOVERNABILITY CRISIS IN BOLIVIA (2000 – 2005) ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH STATE WEAKNESS AND REGIONAL SECURITY

• Main Author: CAROLINA SAMPÓ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Nacional de Estudios Políticos y Estratégicos 2017-12-01
• Series: Política y Estrategia
• Subjects: Seguridad regional; crisis de gobernabilidad; Bolivia; debilidad institucional; narcotráfico
• Online Access: http://www.politicayestrategia.cl/index.php/rpye/article/view/102

During the last decade, there is enough evidence to demonstrate that the state’ security depends mostly in their ability to solve and contain its internal problems. For that reason, more than the years of democracy the region proudly shows, and the defusing of most of the interstate conflict hypothesis, in Latin America it is necessary to focus in the fact that how the weakness of the states, favors the advance of no conventional threats, particularly, organized crime in its various faces (specially drug trafficking y smuggling). In that sense, the characteristics of the states of the region, allow in a certain way, the establishment and reproduction of transnational crime organizations. The state’s weakness, as well as the indigenous problem and political culture, particularly in the Andean Region (Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Bolivia) demonstrate the shortness of the current state’s model and open the path to the presence of new actors. In this given context, this article tries to show how in the Bolivian case (as a witness) the governability crisis of 2003 and 2005, ended in a more profound regional insecurity generated from this country.