ABSTRACT
This chapter stems from the author’s fieldwork in the municipality of Jesús de Machaqa in the province of Ingavi, Bolivia, seeking to validate and amplify the Andean Aymara epistemology that is reflected in political conception and its Aymara democracy (thakhi politics), founded on an epistemology and practices that resisted colonization and internal colonialism. The author concludes, through the Aymara experience, that democracy is a balance of deliberative diversities without subjugating any of the ways of exercising it. According to the author, the communities and Ayllus Aymaras contemporaries are fostering a political multinational pluralism through their democracies.
