The Unfolding Future of Latin American Utopias

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The Unfolding Future of Latin American Utopias
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The Island of Hispaniola
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The Island of Hispaniola
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Praise of Folly by Erasmus, 1509

• The celebrated Moriae encomium, or Praise of
  Folly, expresses a very different mood. For
  the first time the earnest scholar saw his own
  efforts along with everyone else's as bathed in a
  universal irony, in which foolish passion carried
  the day Even the wise man must play the fool if
  he wishes to beget a child.

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The Prince by Machiavelli, 1513

• Machiavelli's version of a Mirror for Princes
  recommends that a prince go to the effectual
  truth of things and forgo the standard of what
  should be done lest he bring about his ruin. To
  maintain himself a prince must learn how not to
  be good and use or not use this knowledge
  according to necessity.

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Utopia by Thomas More, 1516

• Utopia is a Greek name of More's coining, from
  ou-topos (no place) a pun on eu-topos (good
  place) is suggested in a prefatory poem. More's
  Utopia describes a pagan and communist city-state
  in which the institutions and policies are
  entirely governed by reason.

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when a theological age was giving wayto a
teleological age(1118)

• Theological
• From Greek theos (God) pertaining to the word of
  God, i.e. the Bible.
• Teleological
• From Greek tele (end) relating to ends or final
  causes dealing with design or purpose, esp. in
  natural phenomena

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Marxism

• Marxism
• The ideas, theories, and methods of Karl Marx
  esp. the political and economic theories
  propounded by Marx together with Friedrich
  Engels, later developed by their followers to
  form the basis for the theory and practice of
  communism.

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Monetarism

• Monetarism
• School of economic thought that maintains that
  the money supply (i.e. coin, currency, and bank
  deposits) is the chief determinant on the demand
  side of short-run economic activity. American
  economist Milton Friedman is generally regarded
  as monetarism's leading exponent.

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Shinning Path

• Spanish  Sendero Luminoso. Peruvian revolutionary
  organization that endorsed Maoism and employed
  guerrilla tactics and violent terrorism between
  1970 and mid 1990s.

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Chavismo, Fujimorismo, Menemismo, Salinismo

• Programs and government styles associated with

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Kemmerer Mission to Chile, 1925

• Edwin W. Kemmerer
• U.S. civil servant that built a reputation as
  international money doctor by serving as an
  academic consultant to developing nations between
  1903 and 1934.

Seidel R.N. (1972) American Reformers Abroad The
Kemmerer Missions in South America, 1923-
1931. The Journal of Economic History 32 (2)
520-545
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Sources and References

• All definitions from
• Oxford English Dictionary (online)
• http//dictionary.oed.com
• And
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online (academic edition)
• http//search.eb.com/