Latin America has entered a period of sustained crisis in the context of a powerful symbiotic relationship with global institutions and the United States. Its features include accelerating human rights abuses, wealth concentration, economic hardship for the majority, and the rise of artificial form of media-driven 'democracy'. While many have anticipated more freedom and prosperity for the region in the wake of neoliberalism and political change, in fact, just the opposite is beginning to occur. History predicted this.
Latin America has entered a period of sustained crisis in the context of a powerful symbiotic relationship with global institutions and the United States. Its features include accelerating human rights abuses, wealth concentration, economic hardship for the majority, and the rise of artificial form of media-driven 'democracy'. While many have anticipated more freedom and prosperity for the region in the wake of neoliberalism and political change, in fact, just the opposite is beginning to occur. History predicted this.
John W. Sherman is a historian with expertise in twentieth-century Mexico. Sherman earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 1994 prior to returning to his native Ohio to assume a professorship at Wright State University. His recent publications include, The Mexican Right: The End of Revolutionary Reform, 1929-1940, and "The Mexican 'Miracle' and its Collapse, 1946-1973" in the Oxford History of Mexico.
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List of Illustrations Prologue Introduction: Why Is Latin America Poor? Part I Historical Latin America A People of Conquest The Colonial Centuries Progress and Populism Part II Revolution and Counterrevolution Nationalism and the Military Response Revolution in Central America Christianity and Counterinsurgency Part III Contemporary Latin America The Politics of Control Big Money: Debt and Wealth Extraction Latin America in Perpetual Crisis Epilogue: A Strange World Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index
List of Illustrations Prologue Introduction: Why Is Latin America Poor? Part I Historical Latin America A People of Conquest The Colonial Centuries Progress and Populism Part II Revolution and Counterrevolution Nationalism and the Military Response Revolution in Central America Christianity and Counterinsurgency Part III Contemporary Latin America The Politics of Control Big Money: Debt and Wealth Extraction Latin America in Perpetual Crisis Epilogue: A Strange World Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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