The us. Failed to provide much needed aid to president ja gulart, forcing him into this untenable situation of choosing between high inflation and a regressive financial stabilization programme. Laid the groundwork for the military coup that overthrew gulart. Not only abandoned him financially, but also directly supported his overthrow by the brazilian military. What happened to j f k's insight that those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable? Yet it's its hard to know exactly. Like why did the alliance for proveson failed? I guess it goes back to your question, like, why the alliance porporgers fail that way?
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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