The terms right and left start hindering more than helping us in the understanding of the problem. Some, some like cardoso, but many others on the left did not necessarily support lula in the very beginning. And so that's why times these, perhaps those categories of left them right, in this particular kind of case, doesn't help us to understand what's a, what's going on.
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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