Algumas considerações sobre a presença chinesa na Bolívia

Abstract

This article aims to understand the socio-economic context in which the penetration of Chinese companies in the Bolivian Amazon occurs. For that, it analyses both the strategies of the Chinese state for the projection of its influence and the internal Bolivian context, marked by the rise to state command of a party of peasant origin that promotes a process of capitalist accumulation of popular layers (the Andean-Amazonian capitalism, in the words of former vice-president Garcia Linera) and whose developmentalist horizon saw in the Chinese capital a great opportunity for the rapid entry of tickets. However, the environmental and social costs of Chinese companies' actions have been high.