The "indigenous movement", democracy and pending issues in Latin America

Abstract

With the contexts of Chiapas insurgency and political events in Bolivia and Ecuador, which represent a worried recognition of the immediate political impact of the actions of “indigenous people”, the conflicts that such actions trigger and threaten to trigger in the rest of the population threatening the stability of the existing regimes self-defined as democratic, and the  governance of an increasingly discontented population,the author indicates that there is approach to the indigenous issue that seeks to keep it away of the question of power, with incipient thought on the propositions of other forms of social existence. The article focuses on two questions concerning the indigenous movement not sufficiently discussed: its relationship with the State-Nation and with democracy within the current system of power.