Bolivia: two nationalists revolutions?

Abstract

The comparative analysis of the National Revolution, in 1952, and the National-Democratic Revolution, in 2006, opens a theoretical path for understanding the main factors that influenced the change in the direction of the foreign policy in Bolivia. It also propitiates to question the political and social involvement of the polemical measures in the economic domain enacted by Evo Morales. In order to achieve this purpose, the text brings a historical context that shows the main reforms charged by the market-oriented administrations as well the following development that occurred after the Evo Morales’s election. The article aims to demonstrate that those processes, in spite of their distinctive logical, are composed by the same constitutive aspects connected to a nationalist-bourgeois democratic values.