Neoliberalism and Organic Crisis in Latin America

Abstract

In Chapter 2, I analysed the neoliberal world order, indicating that whilst this order is largely hegemonic in the core, this hegemony wore thinner the closer it advanced to the periphery. This is particularly the case in Latin America, where some of the most forceful resistance to the neoliberal project has emerged in the form of the Pink Tide. Before examining this Pink Tide phenomenon, it is first necessary to understand its origins, both in recent and historical contexts. The aim of this chapter, consequently, is to situate Latin America within the neoliberal world order, in order to examine the way in which the neoliberal project sparked such resistance.