This book examines the intellectual problem of Latin American poverty, and discusses some of the explanations scholars have traditionally used to account for it. It focuses on its political and military dimensions of revolution and counterrevolution in the postwar era.
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.
