During the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress development program, Bolivia was the highest per capita recipient of U.S. foreign aid in Latin America. Nonetheless, ...Washington's modernization programs in early 1960s' Bolivia ended up on a collision course with important sectors of the country's civil society, including radical workers, rebellious students, and a plethora of rightwing and leftwing political parties. In From Development to Dictatorship, Thomas C. Field Jr. reconstructs the untold story of USAID's first years in Bolivia, including the country's 1964 military coup d'état.
Field draws heavily on local sources to demonstrate that Bolivia's turn toward anticommunist, development-oriented dictatorship was the logical and practical culmination of the military-led modernization paradigm that provided the liberal underpinnings of Kennedy's Alliance for Progress. In the process, he explores several underappreciated aspects of Cold War liberal internationalism: the tendency of "development" to encourage authoritarian solutions to political unrest, the connection between modernization theories and the rise of Third World armed forces, and the intimacy between USAID and CIA covert operations. Challenging the conventional dichotomy between ideology and strategy in international politics, From Development to Dictatorship engages with a growing literature on development as a key rubric for understanding the interconnected processes of decolonization and the Cold War.
En un proceso histórico que abarca gran parte del siglo XIX y al menos la primera mitad del XX, el caudillismo, las comunidades indígenas y las masas urbanas, fueron imaginados por las élites como un ...resabio de la colonia que la época republicana debía trascender. Este libro analiza dicho proceso y su presencia en la cultura y la literatura. Texto de la editorial
Dignity and Defianceis a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with ...first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood it threatens, of the young people who stood down a former dictator to take back control of their water, and of Bolivia's dramatic and successful challenge to the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Featuring a substantial introduction, a conclusion, and introductions to each of the chapters, this well-crafted mix of storytelling and analysis is a rich portrait of people calling for global integration to be different than it has been: more fair and more just.
Based on a wealth of interview material and original reportage, this book offers a unique bottom-up analysis of how ordinary Bolivians have responded to the changes that have taken place in their ...country since the rise of the MAS in 2006.
The government of Bolivia seeks to reinvigorate the nontraditional export sector as part of its national development strategy. This Country Study investigates the role that trade should play in ...Bolivias development strategy, given the countrys rich resource endowment, and examines the lessons of Bolivias integration into the global economy. Considering the past links between trade and Bolivias economy, the study analyzes the impact of different scenarios on growth, employment, trade flows, and poverty; it also evaluates barriers to higher export competitiveness and constraints on exporting firms. The study concludes that preferential access to world markets is necessary but not sufficient for success in nontraditional exports. Efficient services are necessary to reduce exporters costs, and the government should be more proactive in laying the foundation for export diversification, increasing the effectiveness of institutions, and addressing impediments to crossborder trade.
Unresolved Tensions John Crabtree, Laurence Whitehead / John Crabtree, Laurence Whitehead
09/2008
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The landslide election of Evo Morales in December 2005 pointed toward a process of accelerated change in Bolivia, forging a path away from globalization and the neoliberal paradigm in favor of ...greater national control and state intervention. This in turn shifted the power relations of Bolivia's internal politics-beginning with greater inclusion of the indigenous population-and altered the nation's foreign relations.Unresolved Tensionsengages this realignment from a variety of analytical perspectives, using the Morales election as a lens through which to reassess Bolivia's contemporary political reality and its relation to a set of deeper historical issues.This volume brings together an expert group of commentators and participants from within the Bolivian political arena to offer diverse perspectives and competing views on issues of ethnicity, regionalism, state-society relations, constitutional reform, economic development, and globalization. In this way, the contributors seek to reassess Bolivia's past, present, and future, consider the ways in which the nation's historical developments flow from these deeper currents, and assess the opportunities and challenges that arise within the new political context.
The Fall of Che Guevara tells the story for the first time of the United States government's response to Guevara's ill-starred insurgency in Bolivia in 1967. Author Henry Butterfield Ryan argues that ...Guevara's life must be re-evaluated in light of secret documents recently released specifically for this book by the CIA, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the National Security Archive. This dramatic account of the last days of Che Guevara will appeal to scholars and students of United States foreign policy, Latin American history, military history, and to all those interested in this revolutionary's remarkable life.
Ovaj rad je etnografski prikaz kretanja i mobilnosti u andskoj zajednici Cabreca i oko nje. Istražuje se posjećivanje kao jedan od oblika kretanja u kojem kućanstvo postaje središtem društvene ...interakcije. Kako se ljudi kreću, tako informacije i novosti putuju s njima. Posjetitelji iz drugih krajeva uključuju se u taj protok informacija, a Cabrequeñosi im uzvraćaju posjete da bi održali svoje društvene mreže. Njihov životni stil obilježava fleksibilnost, jer se putovanja i posjeti često događaju spontano. Zbog obavljanja poljoprivrednih poslova čitava se kućanstva privremeno premještaju nekoliko puta godišnje. Ti višestruki domovi i mobilnost Cabrequeñosa unutar vlastitog teritorija karakteristični su za chawpiranu, prostor između brdovitih predjela i dolina u kojem se smjestila Cabreca. Kretanjem i cirkuliranjem ljudi, novosti i uroda Cabrequeñosi održavaju svoj društveni život i svoja kućanstva.
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