Latin America at the Crossroads

Resistance and the Arts of Domination

“…The 1985-1986 attack on the state mining company and miners' union cannot be fully understood in terms of this long history of struggle. It also must be considered in the context of a far-reaching parallel endeavor to restructure and consolidate the state and capitalism in Bolivia in the early 1980s, an expression of the trend toward a &dquo;global&dquo; capitalist economy (Dirlik, 1994;Diskin and Koechlin, 1994;Hojman, 1994;Marini, 1994), a &dquo;globali-zation of world capitalism&dquo; (S. R. Gill, 1993: 278), or a &dquo;global factory&dquo; (Rothstein and Blim, 1992). This undertaking is most strikingly represented by the so-called neoliberal reforms that have become the dominant politicoeconomic enterprise in Latin America and elsewhere.…”