Revolución y legitimidad política en la América Latina contemporánea. Los casos de Cuba y Nicaragua

Abstract

The consideration of the legitimation processes that took place in the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutionary regimes is made in the present text in the light of the weberian typology of legitimate domination. In spite of their remarkable differences –mainly the shape of a frame of democratic legality and political pluralism in sandinist Nicaragua–, it is fundamental in both cases the confluence between political leadership and construction of national imaginaries. At a theoretical level, the lack of a type of legitimacy based on the absolute belief in certain principles, aims or values in weberian political sociology makes difficult the empirical analysis of such relevant foundations of power as the nation or the people, capital in the cases discussed in these pages.