Liberty for Latin America How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression

Name: Liberty for Latin America How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression
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ISBN: 9780374185749

ISBN-10: 0374185743

ISBN-13: 9780374185749

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alvaro Vargas Llosa

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Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent In Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a prescription for finally getting the region on the road to both genuine prosperity and the protection of human rights. When the economy in Argentina--at one time a model of free-market reform--collapsed in 2002, experts of all persuasions asked: What went wrong? Vargas Llosa shows that what went wrong in Argentina has in fact gone wrong all over the continent for over five hundred years. He explains how the republics of the nineteenth…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/16/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English




What failed



The five principles of oppression



The twentieth century : the hour of the snail



Friendly fire from the United States



What succeeded



What could have been



The liberal tradition



Reform



When things looked right, they were wrong



The fever of change



The capitalist mirage



Corruption and the ethical abyss



Turning the tide



Liberty for Latin America