Latin America at the crossroads : domination, crisis, popular movements, and political alternatives /

Regalado Alvarez, Roberto, 1953-

Latin America at the crossroads : domination, crisis, popular movements, and political alternatives / Roberto Regalado. - Melbourne ; New York, NY : Ocean Press, 2007. - 263 p. ; 22 cm.

Translation of: América Latina entre siglos

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-263).

Part One: Reform or revolution? : The cycles of capitalist depvelopment; The state political power, and capitalist accumulation between the 16th and 19th centuries; Bourgeois democracy and political parties; The origins of the socialist movement; Reform and revolution to the 1970s; US imperialism's counteroffensive; Consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union; Neoliberalism in the United States and Western Europe; "Post-Neoliberal" social democracy and the doctrines of the third way and global progress.--- Part Two: Domination, crisis, and popular resistance in Latin America; The rise of capitalism in Latin America; From Colonialism to Neocolonialism; Pan-Americanism; Developmentalism and its consequences; Revolution and counterrevolution in the 1960s; The impact of the Nixon goverment and the vacillations of the Carter administration; Ronald Reagns strategy of force; Latin America between the centuries; Cocluding remarks.

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Capitalism--Latin America.


Latin America--Politics and government--1980-
Latin America--Economic conditions--1982-
Latin America--Social conditions--1982-

JL 960 / R333a 2007

320.98