PUBLIC POLICIES, NEOEXTRATIVIST DEVELOPMENT AND INDIAN COSMOVISION: THE POLITICAL PROJECT OF THE HIGHWAY CUTTING TIPNIS IN BOLIVIA

Abstract

This article analyzes the highway project proposed by Evo Morales, as a way of development, verifying the risks and socioenvironmental problems caused to the indigenous population and to the environment. For this the deductive analytical method is used, based on bibliographical studies. Therefore, it is understood that the Government of Evo Morales preached the renunciation of the eurocentric development model, but with the creation of the highway cutting the TIPNIS is implementing public policies of colonial and neo-extractivist nature.

Keywords

• constitucionalismo latino-americano
• desenvolvimento neoextrativista
• indígenas
• políticas públicas