After the 19 64 cu in brazil, dependency theorists moved to chile. The move was part of what radicalized te dependentencis and made it a had its impact in the rest of the world. And simultaneously, social scientists and intellectuals around the world are increasingly paying attention to what's happening in chile because of that.
Historian Margarita Fajardo on her book The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Fajardo discusses the Latin American economists at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) who conceptualized the division of the global economy between center and periphery, and how that later gave rise to dependency theory and world systems theory. Plus Cuban Revolution and the Alliance for Progress, Allende's democratic road to socialism and right-wing coups in Chile and Brazil—and more.
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