6/28/2023 0 Comments Open veins of latin america review![]() He left office in 2002.īecoming the president of one’s own country can be a sobering experience, even for the most uncompromisingly radical professor doktor. ![]() ![]() He was elected president in 1994, then reelected in 1998. Nevertheless, in at least one case, a very distinguished economic scholar was elected presidente: Brazillian professor Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Rio de Janeiro, 1931), whose work used to be abundantly quoted by left-leaning fellow savants throughout Latin America during the 1970s-and well into the 1980s-as those of an authority in a theory termed “of neocolonial dependence”. Op-ed columnists and TV commentators, of course, tend to think otherwise. There are not many “public intellectuals” in Latin America who can exert any discernible influence in their countries’ economic decision-makers. Conventional wisdom suggests that he is someone who writes about public-interest matters-economic policy not the least-and manages to garner attention from either the governing elites or the business community or both. ![]()
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