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In 2019, amid Bolivia’s constitutional crisis and the contested resignation of Evo Morales, Ricardo Paredes stood before the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, not as a party loyalist, but as a Guarani lawyer who had spent fifteen years documenting land dispossession in the Chaco region. His intervention that day wasn’t about power succession; it was a meticulously cited legal argument affirming the continuity of indigenous jurisdictional authority under Article 263 of the 2009 Constitution, citing ancestral territorial maps co-produced with Ayoreo elders in 2017. Unlike many urban-based advocates, Paredes built his political credibility not through ministerial posts but through bilingual litigation in rural courts, where he pioneered the use of oral history as admissible evidence in agrarian restitution cases. His approach treats language not as symbolism but as infrastructure: Quechua and Guaraní legal terminology appear verbatim in his parliamentary motions, forcing institutional translation rather than assimilation. This quiet insistence, that decolonization begins in procedural grammar, not just policy, defines his enduring influence on Bolivia’s evolving jurisprudence of plurinationality.
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