The Resurgence Of Mid-Latitude Attitudes

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m pursuing more advanced economic diversification. The prevailing role of these countries as a global resource provider disallows these governments from pursuing meaningful progress. Hindering this process of economic development simply makes matters worse.
The time has come for the denial of capitalism on the global market. This only benefits the developed countries of the world. Sustainable development and structuralist economics needs to be reincorporated into the least developed countries of Latin America. The resurgence of the capital based ideals of the United States and Europe will only compromise the integrities of less developed Latin American countries. Neo-liberalism, in its clean structure, must be discarded. Many of these ideas must be clarified before proceeding. Latin America must consider the global realities of sustainability, information globalization, and environmental consciousness. Most importantly these countries need to practice government that is publicly viewable and focuses primarily on the interests of the people, reform from the bottom, and the development of social, political, and economic diversification, and to move beyond the export based dependence and lay the foundation for competition in the world market.

The Global Economy and Neo-Liberalism:

As we reach the end of this century we can look back on the enormous changes that have occurred over the past 100 years. Anyone alive in 1900 would find unrecognizable what we take for granted today. The motor car had just been invented and claimed its first victim ( a woman killed in south east London in August 1896), but only a handful were on the roads and most people had never seen one. The first flight by powered airplane was still three years off. Electricity and telephone was a luxury item, and newspapers were the major source of information. Latin America had been experiencing exploitation of its natural resources by European nations...