Post-neoliberal developmental regimes in Latin America: Argentina under Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Why neoliberal health reforms have failed in Latin America.

This paper reviews Latin American neoliberal health reforms sponsored by the IMF and the World Bank, and analyzes the impact on the region of decentralization and privatization, the two basic components of the reforms. The second part of the paper examines in some detail the Chilean and Colombian reforms, the two countries that have implemented closely the principles of the neoliberal reform. T...

A Concise History of Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America

The paper analyzes exchange rate regimes implemented by the major Latin American countries since the Second World War, with special attention on the period of the second globalization process beginning in the 1970s. The analysis follows a historical narrative aiming to provide an understanding of the domestic and external circumstances in which various regimes were adopted. A simple conceptual ...

Shifting Interest Regimes of the Working Classes in Latin America

Neoliberal Policies and Social Development in Latin America: The case of Ecuador

A Post-neoliberal Ecopolitics?

Between the philosophies of representation and critique in environmental politics, this essay argues that the relationship between French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s theory of “machinic ecology” and the Zapatistas “ecological self-management” practices in the Lacandon jungle in Chiapas, Mexico, offers a compelling direction for a post-neoliberal ecopolitics. While normative...