This paper, first, summarizes Latin American structuralism, and offers reasons why it was so influential and durable in the region. Second, it points out why structuralism was unable to keep pace with historical new facts, particularly with the industrial revolution or take-off, that made Latin...

According to the author, in Brazil today, economic and political crises co-exist independently, although always interacting and impacting one the other. The economic crisis is of longer duration, having originated at the end of the 1970s. The political crisis, in its present form, is a...