Latin America: neoliberalism, macroeconomic policies and national development projects

Abstract

Since the eighties the economic, social and in certain ways, political decomposition of Latin America has become accentuated.  A definitive element in this process has been the imposition of economic plans implemented by supranational institutions that have been guided by the interests of large corporations that finally consolidated their presence in the region, in large part promoted by local government.  But since the beginning of the twenty-first century a group of countries in South America have started off on an experience that is attempting to structure a route to development that is less economically and politically dependent on the hegemonic centers of the capitalist world system.  The results, without being all positive, have achieved in putting up resistance to several long standing structural disadvantages and in proposing post neoliberal alternative.