Raquel Gutiérrez AguilarRaquel Gutiérrez Aguilar was born in Mexico. She studied philosophy and mathematics and became involved in the struggle of exiled Salvadorans of the FMLN. In the 1980s she was one of the founding members of the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (EGTK) in Blivia, along with her then-compañero and today vice-president Alvaro García Linera. After accompanying the insurgencies of Aymara and Quechua communities, she spent several years in prison during the 1990s. Later, she joined the group Comuna. She returned to Mexico and wrote her doctoral dissertation on militant politics in Bolivia, specifically the water wars, which she also experienced as an activist. She is a professor of sociology at the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. She has studied and documented the continent's processes of constituent assemblies, comparing the cases of Ecuador and Bolivia. Her book Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia was published by Duke Press in 2014.
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