Bolívar Echeverría (31 January 1941 – 5 June 2010) was a philosopher, economist and cultural critic, born in Ecuador and later nationalized Mexican.

In this city, he studied first at Lasalle School and in 1955 his father transferred him to the Instituto Nacional Mejía, where his intellectual and political activity began.

He participated on the German student movement in the late 1960s, establishing friendship and long-lasting collaboration with its leaders, including Rudi Dutschke.

[3] His investigations where mainly (and broadly) concerned on: the ontological problems of existentialism, especially in Sartre and Heidegger; Marxian critique of political economy, focusing on the contradiction between Use value and Exchange value; and a contemporary development of critical theory and the Frankfurt School, including cultural and historical phenomena of Latin America.

From this standpoint, Echeverría formulated a rigorous critique of postmodernity, with which he developed his theory of capitalist modernity and the baroque ethos, a form of cultural resistance in Latin America.