In this brief introductory essay, the main themes and issues addressed by the contributions to this collection of essays are analyzed within the current setting of globalization and development in Latin America and the Caribbean region. The region is undergoing profound transformations at all...

Popular resistance to globalization and neoliberalism in Latin America is extensive and has been increasing both in scale and intensity. The polyarchic neoliberal regimes in Latin America have responded to this increasing popular resistance by relying on two types of measures: (1) tactical...

Rural Latin America: exclusionary and uneven agricultural development / Crist∫£obal Kay -- Urban transformation and survival strategies / Sandor Halebsky -- Demilitarization and democratic transition in Latin America / Jorge Nef -- The contemporary Latin American economies : neoliberal...

There is growing opposition among many Latin American and Caribbean governments, and from a broad spectrum of civil society organizations, to the hemispheric free trade regime that the United States government and the international financial institutions and US transnational corporations have...