What Happened to Sepal With the Participation of the Cuban Revolution

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The institution itself sent a mission to al cepal and to cuba, sorry. And then kind of avord early, earlier than the cuban government desired. That was a clearly political abase decision by prevish that cand of shape the position that sepal was going to take with regard to cuba. It made it clear for many on the intellectual left that sepal had sort of changed - they were no longer representing this sort of voice of the periphery.

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