From populism to the coca economy in Bolivia
The Bolivian experience during the 1980s is unique in a way that is of great interest to Latin American workers and revolutionary intellectuals. Since the MNR was elected to take over the government in August 1985, the application of Paz Estenssoro's neoliberal model profoundly reordered economic, political, and social life in the country. His term ended in 1989 with the implementation of an economic plan that reduced hyperinflation and, unusually for Latin America, the party that had administered this neoliberal "shock therapy" won the next elections as well. The Bolivian experience is currently being held up as an exemplary paradigm by neoliberal ideologues and politicians. (Lat Am Perspect/DÜI)
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1994
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Authors: | Estellano, Washington |
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Latin American perspectives : a journal on capitalism and socialism. - Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, ISSN 0094-582X, ZDB-ID 195543-3. - Vol. 21.1994, 4, p. 34-45
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Subject: | Wirtschaftspolitik | Economic policy | Hyperinflation | Droge | Drug | Bolivien | Bolivia |
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