ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses battles and power struggles over the political-economic basis of Bolivian plurinationalism. It focuses on describing and understanding diverging views and interpretations amongst elements of the political opposition, indigenous activists, left-wing politicians, and social movements over the control and distribution of assets such as natural resources, land, and territories. It examines the emergence of state-led developmentalism and resource extraction as a challenge to Vivir Bien, thereby presenting contradictions between governmental schemes of improvement.
