The Own Physonomy of Popular Action in Bolivia.

Abstract

The State guarantees the exercise of the rights recognized by the Political Constitution of the State and, for this purpose, granted protection means against any act or omission of authorities, individual or collective persons tending to prevent their effective exercise. These protection means are called guardianship actions. In the particular case of the Popular Action, is the protection mean and immediate defense, suitable for the violation or intention to violate rights, collective or diffuse interests related to heritage, space, security and public health, the medium environment and others of a similar nature recognized by the Political Constitution of the State.

This constitutional action to defend collective or diffuse rights and interests is very new within the legal system of the Bolivian State. Its insertion and recognition in our legal economy was through the constitutional reform of 2009. Although it is the youngest constitutional defense action within the Bolivian legal system, due to the recent date of its insertion, there are a number of Constitutional Judgments that resolve them, of which we can use in order to understand the physiognomy of this action in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, know its legal nature and identify its characteristics through the jurisprudential lines established by the Plurinational Constitutional Court.