Abstract

ANTELO PAZ, Vanessa. Political implied speech in the arguments of the case "Camba flojo". Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2014, n.17, pp.16-24. ISSN 2306-8671.

The absence or weak presence of a political party opposing the ruling government facilitated the involvement of the media as players in the national political arena. As a result of this situation, the publication of an interpretation of a speech delivered by President Evo Morales led to a series of accusations and counter-accusations that, besides occupying the media, generated a series of threats of legal action and exposure of rights violations, revealing a polarization of political interests. The discourse surpassed the intervening players, as they and their discourse became empty signifiers. The intention throughout the descriptive qualitative study is to uncover chains of equivalences and discursive relations among these empty signifiers (categories that become filled with various meanings), reflecting two conflicting social imaginaries correspondingto two political tendencies based on regionalist and ethnic identification within the process of the redefinition of the Bolivian State as an intercultural State.

Keywords : Camba flojo; empty signifiers; freedom of speech.

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