The Fall of the Berlin Wall and its Consequences in Latin America

Abstract

The fall of the Berlin Wall had mediate and immediate consequences in time, as well as beyond its geographical proximity in space. Its collapse gave rise to many expectations. Possibilities of a world without the conflict generated by the bipolarity of the world arose. However, these aspirations were soon obliterated by the emergence of a unipolar, frenzied world that was powerfully self-affirmed in the wonders of its economic-political and cultural premises. From that perspective, a new civilizational era was consolidated; however, new and more radical ideological expressions were consolidated against it in the Islamic world and, likewise, in the margins of the new capitalist centrality. Latin America carried out one of its most active expressions in search of autonomy. For the world, however, the last thirty years have brought about new and disheartening contradictions: new and more numerous walls to tear down. A world capable of combining liberty and equity remains on the horizon.