Latin America's Position in the World Economy Has Changed

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ma gerita fajardo is a historian at sarah lawrence college and the author of the world that latin america created. It's interesting to try to think through to what extent latin America's position in te world economy has both changed and stayed the same. The basic structure of the world system has state and place, ya. Well, margerita fahardo, thank you very much for having me on. And ah, thank you to all the ones who made it trugh this point.

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