BOLIVIA AND MEXICO: THEIR PROCESSES OF INDEPENDENCE

Abstract

"When we are comparing processes of independence of our America, we verify once more that we a family divided just by geography, with a common history and culture", writes the Mexican historian Patricia Galeana in this article, in which she discusses the cases of Mexico and Bolivia, both countries of indigenous origin which engaged in prolonged struggles to obtain independence from the Spaish yoke. The parallelisms and singularities began with Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808, which detonated the liberation struggles of all of Hispanic America.