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Abstract

In this new issue, Punto Cero addresses the contemporary debate on the intricate relationship between communication and politics. The studies analyze the identity and digital coordination of the MAS "Guerreros Samurai" through Telegram and WhatsApp; the discursive polyphony of the Paz-Lara ticket in the 2025 Bolivian elections drawing on Bakhtin's theory; and a critical reading of textbooks in Mexico and Spain as instruments of political legitimation rather than civic pedagogy. The issue also examines expressions of racism in digital spaces based on Facebook comments; posits the end of the Revolutionary Nationalism cycle in Bolivia and the transition toward a new citizen-democratic State; investigates "machocracia" as a relational system of power through the discourse analysis of María Galindo; and proposes methodological guidelines for a hermeneutics of the narrative of power aimed at deconstructing the communicational strategies of legitimation and social domination.