"The mistakes the U.S. has made in Latin America-and the high price it will pay for them Washington has long told Latin American countries how to run their economies: bring in multinationals, eliminate the social safety net, keep government debt low, court U.S. politicians, and sign free trade...

Introduction -- Dependency theory in the post-1945 development literature of Latin America -- Marini's Marxism and dependency theory today -- Neo-imperialism and neo-dependency: two sides of the same historical-political process -- Sub-imperialism and dependency -- The United States and Brazil:...