The future of Bolivia hinges on the constitutional restitution and the removal of organized crime from the government

By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 27/08/2025

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Twenty-First Century Socialism has been successful in installing itself in Bolivia under the simulation of democracy. Devoid of any essential components of democracy, it has presented Bolivia as a new “plurinational” State and a thriving economic model, until reality striped its condition of being a dictatorship and narco-State, satellite of Cuba and Venezuela with an exponential poverty and impunity.

The president that is elected, in the forthcoming second round of voting, will set the future of Bolivia, either keep it as a dictatorial system of organized crime, or restore the Republic’s constitution. The axis of confrontation in the second round of voting in Bolivia is CONTINUISM, in other words more of the same, versus a CHANGE OF THE SYSTEM that includes the restitution of the Republic and of Democracy.

CONTINUISM is to keep the nation under the system imposed by the so-called “Constitution of the Plurinational State” that -based on a long litany of crimes, falsifications, and massacres- was the instrument for 21st Century Socialism, along with its operator Evo Morales, to occupy and control branches of the government (Supreme Court of Justice, Constitutional Tribunal, Attorney General, National Electoral Court, People’s Defender...) to their convenience, thus wrecking the concept of “separation and independence of the branches of government.”

The plurinational constitution sustains transnational organized crime in power, institutionalizes the dictatorship/narco-State in Bolivia, and today has over 320 political prisoners and 27,000 exiles.

TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM is the restitution of Democracy and the Republic, changing the existing legal and constitutional situation to its former situation before the constitutional supplantation. This means; to declare the 1994 Constitution of the Republic of Bolivia as valid and in-force, something that would immediately cease the institutions and designated powers of the government established and granted by the failed plurinational constitution. This would also obligate the Executive and Legislative branches to name new magistrates for Bolivia’s Supreme Court of Justice, Constitutional Tribunal, Attorney General, the Judicature Council, the Peoples’ Defender, the National Electoral Court, and all democratic institutions established by the 1994 Constitution. The dictatorial system would be disassembled.

As soon as elected, at the very beginning of his/her mandate, to declare the existence and validity of the 1994 Constitution of the Republic of Bolivia is the obligation of the new president of Bolivia. Based on, Part I, Article 31 of the 1994 constitution that states “ANY ACT BY ANYONE WHO USURPS FUNCTIONS THAT DO NOT BEHOOVE HIM/HER, AS WELL AS ANY ACTIONS BY ANYONE CLAIMING TO HAVE LAWFUL EMPOWERMENT BUT THAT ARE NOT MANDATED BY LAW, ARE NULL AND VOID”

This is not about having the right to ask for, or to sue for, annulment. This is an obligatory standard and mandate that establishes validity and nullity that the new president has the obligation to abide by. The path of the crime (iter-criminis) of the so-called Plurinational Constitution, includes flagrant and public crimes that cannot remain unpunished, unless the new government becomes an accomplice and cover these up. A brief summary of proof:

1. Law 2650 of Constitutional Reform, dated 13 April of 2004, supplants Article 232, introducing the “Total Reform of the Constitution,” something that was not even addressed in the law dealing with the possible need to reform the constitution and it included “the Constituent Assembly,” something strictly and expressly prohibited by the Constitution of the Republic. With the call for a Constituent Assembly, decreed by law on 6 March of 2006, this material falsehood and ideological misrepresentation, gives way to the use of a counterfeited instrument by Evo Morales.

2. The Constituent Assembly -rejected by the people- meeting in the city of Sucre, was moved to a military garrison in the city of Oruro, a place from where it sent the text of the “Proposal for a Constitution” that did not have anything dealing with continuous reelections, or the scope and reach of the Plurinational State, something that gave way to Law 3941, enacted on October of 2008, through which the Bolivian Congress “attributed to itself the rights of the peoples” and modified the Constitutional Reform Law 2650 (already counterfeited) by establishing that “At the conclusion of the Constituent Process and having received the Constitutional Proposal to be submitted to the sovereign peoples’ consideration, the National Congress may make the necessary adjustments based on the popular will of national interests, through a Special Law of Congress, approved by two thirds of its members in attendance.” Evidenced by this chain of events, we can undeniably state that the Plurinational Constitution is NOT the one drafted and presented by the Constituent Assembly.

3. To impose the Plurinational Constitution against the citizenry’s objections, Evo Morales perpetrated the massacres at La Calancha, El Porvenir, Cochabamba, Las Americas Hotel, and more. The one at the Las Americas Hotel has been reported by the Interamerican Commission on Human Rights (Case # 13.546) that levies responsibility for the assassinations on Evo Morales and his regime. More political prisoners and exiles were the direct consequence of the political persecution unleashed in order to impose the Plurinational Constitution, a carbon-copy of similar constitutions from Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, that was also attempted to be imposed in Chile, but was rejected.

*Lawyer & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas

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