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The Fires of Adversity in Latin America: Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Free Trade
Contributor(s): Mishina, Faith N. (Author)

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ISBN: 1612299245     ISBN-13: 9781612299242
Publisher: Common Ground Publishing
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American
- Political Science | Globalization
- Political Science | International Relations - General
Dewey: 330.98
LCCN: 2016032373
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.19 lbs) 190 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Chronological Period - 1950-1999
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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In a world that is toying with neo-fascist tendencies, Latin America's painful experience with fascist military governments and North American corporate capitalism should be a red flag.

From 1954 to 2005, Latin America underwent social, economic, and environmental upheaval brought about by neoliberalism's preference for North American corporate control of Latin American sovereignty. Latin American dictatorships spelled out stable platforms for North American corporations by deregulation and privatization of public wealth. They also increased corporate profits. This book presents nine different articles on the fires of adversity that the Latin American public endured at the hands of North American corporations: the military coups the corporates scripted, the death squads that Operation Condor sanctioned, and the massive pollution of the Amazon by North American extraction of oil and minerals. These corporations bought political influence and decision-making.

The unfettered growth of corporate interests worked counter to the interests and well-being of the Latin American public. By 2005, the Latin American nations soundly rejected the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). Their experience of the reign of corporate money on the Latin American society was not only a form of neocolonialism, but it also provoked unsustainable social upheaval, inequality, and toxic pollution by corporate dumping.

 
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