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Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0374185743
Hardcover
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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 century and the
revolutions of the twentieth-populist uprisings, Marxist
coops, state takeovers, and First World-sponsored
privatization-have all run up against the oligarchic legacy
of statism. Illiberal elites backed by the United States
and Europe have perpetuated what he calls the "five
principles of oppression" in order to maintain their hold
on power. The region has become "a laboratory for political
and economic suicide," while comparable countries in Asia
and Eastern Europe have prospered. The only way to change things in Latin America, Vargas
Llosa argues, is to remove the five principles of
oppression, genuinely reforming institutions and the
underlying culture for the benefit of the disempowered
public. In Liberty for Latin America, he explains how,
offering hope as well as insight for all those who care for
the future of this troubled region.
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