i was part of the critique of gunder frank, or that was what y was part of. Gunder frank argued that sapaul misdiagnosed the problem of development as originating in the nineteenth centuries international division of labor. He contended that it all began well before, with spanish conquest and portuguese conquest. And he was trying to say like, well, the origin of the problem has to do with of the unequal relation between centres and pariperis is pretty much embedded on capitalism itself. So there were many dhebates, and beded is sort of the critic on cunter frank. But think some one, you know, scholars also kind of are starting
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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