Abstract

ROSSI, Ignacio Andrés. From Bolivia to Argentina: reconstruction and historical interpretation of post-authoritarian economic strategies (1982-1985). Rev. hist. Am. [online]. 2022, n.163, pp.135-171.  Epub Feb 27, 2024. ISSN 2663-371X.  https://doi.org/10.35424/rha.163.2022.1164.

The return of third wave democracies in the late 1970s and early 1980s still constitutes a period of analysis in force for Latin American countries. Specifically, comparisons are fruitful, such as the one we propose between the historical and economic processes of the Argentine and Bolivian post-dictatorships in 1983 and 1982, respectively. Analyzing the political and economic variables that hampered the birth of the democracies that are still in force today in both countries becomes an important historiographic bet to shed light on these processes as some keys to the present. It has been concluded that, despite the significant differences between both societies, the historical moments that Bolivia and Argentina went through in the eighties, allow us to extract comparative lessons to understand the difficult process of democratic transition.

Keywords : Argentina; Bolivia; democracy; economy; inflation.