Various groups of the MAS – artists and evidence – began their internal reorganization for the second electoral round and with an uncertain political scene for these organizations, because they no longer have the strength they had throughout the 20 years of moreism.
This weekend, the detainee leader, Juan Enrique Mamani, was reelected as executive of the intercultural evotes. According to his relatives, an ‘ordinary congress’ was held in which the new directive was elected. The Congress ratified Mamani as his executive.
Meanwhile, another evista leader, Juanita Ancieta, summoned women Bartolina Sisa to a ‘national expanded’ in Shinahota where the leadership of peasant women who are related to former president Evo Morales will discuss.
Peasant groups received different names throughout these 20 years. When former President Evo Morales agreed to power, in 2005, he said they would be the ‘General Staff of the people’ and baptized them as ‘National Coordinator for Change (CONALCAM). Name with which they would remain until the fall of Evo Morales.
During the government of Jeanine Áñez, they appeared at the beginning of their mandate and negotiated the end of social confrontations in the country. The architect of dismantling these groups was the former Minister of the Presidency, Jusinian Jerjes.
In the government of Luis Arce, with the internal division between EVISTAS and arcistas they re -articulated and They formed the ‘Unit Pact’ which brings together the three groups: CSUTCB, Intercultural and Bartolina Sisa; While the Evistas resumed the idea of the ‘General Staff of the people’.
Now, On the arcista side they also summoned congresses. Until the end of the month, the Bartolinas Women Congress directed by Guillermina Kuno will be held. There will also be an extended from Esteban Alavi’s intercultural, who will choose their new leaders.
The CSUTCB related to Arce convened Congress for after the general elections of October 19, where they also plan to change national leaders.
Given the arrival of a new government, these sectors prepare to negotiate with the authorities as they have been doing with the preceding efforts. It remains to know if the new rulers will consider them as valid interlocutors in the peasant sector.
