What Are the Stakes of the Conference in Quito?

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You write about an important economic form, this organization of american states o a s economic form that takes place in qintanina, brazil in 19 54. It included guaranteed prices and markets for latin America's exports to industrialized peripheral countries. And yet, their proposal was essentially blocked by the administration of president dwight eisenhauer. What were the stakes of this meeting in quitanina? And why did the us? Oppose what saint paul was putting forward? In many ways, as you were saying, like it sepaltor ondad, that match at least.

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