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<p class="null1">Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent</p> <p>In <i>Liberty for Latin America</i>, 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.</p> <p>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 E

Author

Álvaro Vargas Llosa

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374185749

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, Business

Rating

4.4 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14