User:Paola Ledo (SLU)/Chacha-warmi

Chacha-warmi (man-woman) is a concept used in the Andean worldview in general, but specially in aymara, quechua y uru cultures. It refers to the code of conduct based on the principle of duality and the complementary. The Bolivian government appeals to chacha-warmi in the 2009 Bolivian constitution to develop decolonization and depatriarchalization policies.

Genre equality
It is used especially in the context of gender equality and parity duality. Chacha-warmi is used to claim gender equality as a way of life between women and men, and to achieve balance and harmony in human coexistence.

The model of the Andean political system is based on the alternative exercise of local power and around the representation of the couple (chacha-warmi) and is based on a communal ideological thought of unity and brotherhood, necessary for the administration system of the political power enforces the principle of balance between the male and female gender in all instances and in all areas.

"Gender is fundamental in the Andean area because everything is even, everything has a partner and is complementary, it is a natural Andean philosophy" explains the communicator Marianela Díaz researcher and author of the thesis "Chachawarmi Development, gender logics in the empowerment of the Aymara community of Corpa Machaca ".

"Chacha warmi" monuments
In Bolivia, within the framework of the so-called "decolonization and depatriarchalization processes" initiated with the Bolivia constitution of 2009, new monuments are being constructed in the country representing the chacha-warmi principle of duality. These monuments represent the indigenous man and woman who fought throughout history: Túpac Katari and Bartolina Sisa; Túpac Amaru and Micaela Bastidas; Zárate Willca and Aida Aguilar, etc.