Pretty sure things are better in Bolivia under Evo then they would have been under the woman they couped into power there lol.

I think an important distinction here is that Evo calls himself a marxist-leninist while socdems in the global north call themselves socdems and denounce communism.

Yeah they might be marxists doing social democracy out of necessity. But are they ideological socdems? Or is social democracy viewed by them as genuine compromise and/or stepping stone?

I don't think their goal is social democracy. Whereas that is the goal of the socdems of the global north, with nothing beyond it.

One group sees social democracy as an end, the other sees it as a means.