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Globalization, in its varying guises, has had a wide range of effects throughout Latin America. This chapter discusses the four countries namely Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia that highlights the various ways that globalizing forces have affected the region, and the ways countries, leaders, and institutions have responded to them. Globalization first touched Chile in late 1973, after its right-wing military overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Argentina’s 2001-2002 economic collapse triggered severe suffering and social unrest. But economic globalization also brought cultural changes that were more positive and lasting. Argentina welcomed foreign influences and, in turn, exported its music, dance, sport, literature, and cinema to the world. Globalization’s arrival in Brazil was more gradual than in either Chile or Argentina. Once Bolivia became independent, a tiny elite of Spanish-descended whites monopolized political power, wealth, and social status. Moreover, a major result of globalization’s failures has been the post-2000 emergence of “Pink Tide” populist, nationalist regimes. |
