The former president of the Constitutional Convention, Elisa Loncon, addressed the new constitutional process and criticized the Expert Commission for what was agreed on the original peoples in the proposal for a new Constitution.
Regarding the first constituent process, Loncon disagreed “with the analyzes that maintain that what happened was a problem of particular identity issues, because if the oppression is so great, it is because it is installed with a political structure that social science has called internal colonialism”.
“In this internal colonialism, Eurocentric colonial forms are produced that prevent those of us who are not within the State from being the oppressed, while the elite and those who make politics act with that oppressive structure. We peoples resist, we seek strategies to break with that oppression, because they put us in situations of inequality,” he added.
Regarding the native peoples, Loncon pointed out that “a 21st century democracy cannot be thought of as marginalizing us, as has happened with the Commission of Experts.”
“They know that it is not democratic and they marginalized us as if we were in the worst times of Apartheid in South Africa, they defending their identity, that they were always the ones who made the decisions and, therefore, how would the rotosos be next to they making the decisions. There are political issues that we have to analyze and deepen,” he said.
