Report on Citizenship Law: Bolivia the acquisition of the right to participate openly in the political rights that every person should be able to exercise. Textually, the Political Constitution of the State34 states that citizenship consists: “1. in attending as a voter or being eligible for training in, and exercise of, functions within the organs of public power; and 2. in the right to exercise public functions without other requirements than suitability, apart from the exceptions established in Law”. These exceptions refer to the age, profession, and professional experience that are required for the official position to which one is applying. One of the new features that the constitution presents is that it only speaks of the suspension of citizenship and not of the loss of it, as it appeared at the beginning of its regulation. Art. 14435 in its third part simply states that citizenship will be suspended for the following reasons: For taking arms and serving in enemy armed forces during times of war, for defrauding public resources and for public treason36. These causes are typified in the Bolivian Penal Code, in the Quiroga Santa Cruz Law and the Tax Law, and they must be judged and convicted, and the suspension of citizenship will last as long as the sentence does. 4. Conclusion The recent crisis and the transformations that are taking place in Bolivia have exposed a series of unresolved historical fractures. Thus, the new political configuration and in the State Constitution, approved in January of 2009, have sought solutions to these visible ruptures. These crisis factors can be grouped, at least, into four fundamental cleavages that constitute the background of the current Bolivian process: an economic one, which comes from short-term memory, that is, from the crisis of the neoliberal model established in the eighties and nineties and reflected in the persistence of high poverty and inequality rates in the country; the second, is derived from the crisis of the system of political representation and the displacement of parties as protagonists of such system and as mediators between the State and society, in light of the emergence of new actors; the third stems from the crisis of the centralist State on which the Republic was founded almost 200 years ago, which, on repeated occasions, has been subjected to questioning and demands for transformation, demonstrating its limitations; and, finally, linked to the long-term memory anchored in the 500 years of Spanish colonisation that was later reproduced in internal colonialism, which revealed a long history of ethno-cultural exclusion which materialised in a state built on an elitist institutional scaffolding that left outside its borders Bolivia’s socio-cultural reality. The crisis that unfolded as a result the cycle of protests initiated by social movements in 2000, led to the demand for deep state transformation, revealing the different unresolved fractures which came together at the moment of the crisis. This process put at the centre of the debate the issue of citizenship from the perspective of its different anchorages: social or socio-economic citizenship, which exposed the deficits in living conditions, inequality, lack of access to basic services and unemployment. The deficits 34 Constitución Política del Estado 2009 Constitución Política del Estado 2009 Art. 144 36 Constitución Política del Estado 2009 Art. 28 35 RSCAS/GLOBALCIT-CR 2020/2 - © 2020 Author 11