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The bulk of the novels, films, and other cultural expressions under examination appear during the 1990s, a decade now notorious for the implementation and institutionalization of neoliberal regimes through much of Latin America. The political career of Carlos Menem, Argentina’s president from 1989 to 1999, provides an easy chart for Latin America’s own embrace and rejection of economic policies that emphasized free trade and privatization over the remnants of state-centered programs. In the case of Argentina, while the pegging of the peso to the dollar in 1991 alleviated the hyperinflation of the late 1980s and the privatization of state industry helped money flow into a bankrupted nation, by the late 1990s these policies had gutted Argentina’s production capabilities, converting the country into a nation of consumers and destabilizing the economy to the point of the crisis of 2001. Argentina was only one obvious example; many other countries embraced and then rejected neoliberal policy over the course of the 1990s and the beginning of this century. We have countries such as Bolivia or Venezuela whose neoliberal experiments are now harshly condemned by the leftist governments who came to power on the backs of those economic failures.
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Brown, J.A. (2010). Neoliberal Prosthetics in Postdictatorial Argentina and Bolivia: Carlos Gamerro and Edmundo Paz Soldán. In: Cyborgs in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109773_5
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