Are the Ideas Put Forward by Sapelinos and Dependenciss Still Relevant?

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To what extent do you feel like the ideas put forward by sapelinos and dependentesus, that those ideas still are still relevant for the predicament of latin america to day? That's a big question. I i think in some ways, in some ways they are. Some of the problems with regard to the position of latin America in the world economy,. are very much there.

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. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig