Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change - 9780367144432

Taylor & Francis

Latin America in the Vortex of Social ChangeDevelopment and Resistance Dynamics\nAuthor(s): Henry Veltmeyer, James Petras\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367144432, 978-0367144432\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the dynamics of the recent progressive cycle in Latin American politics, associated with a red and pink tide of regime change. With this cycle of centre-left regimes oriented towards an alternative post-neoliberal form of development now coming to an end, coinciding with the end of a primary commodities boom (the demand for natural resources exported in primary form on the world market), the authors seek to explore the dynamics of the transition from a progressive cycle of regimes oriented towards the search for a more inclusive form of development towards what appears to be another swing in the pendulum of electoral politics towards the far right and a return to neoliberal orthodoxy.\n\nWithin the vortex .