ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to reconstruct Bolivia's experience after ten years of the Movement for Socialism government. It seeks to shed light on the path taken by the social movements who generated the political energy in support of another economy and development that was then channelled by the party of President Evo Morales, which came to power in 2006. The process of change began on a note of epic transformation at the symbolic and political level and had the support of the grassroots social movements, but problems started to appear in 2010. In the Bolivian case, the laws that have been approved to foster the Living Well project have not been regulated or turned into public policies. The chapter concludes with the analysis of the Bolivian case is compared with the experiences of other countries with progressive governments over the same period in order to outline the main contradictions and identify the challenges for new progressive political projects in the region.
