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Fabricantes de Miseria: Politicos, curas, militares, empresarios, sindicatos (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Plinio A. Mendoza (Author), Carlos Alberto Montaner (Author), Alvaro V. Llosa (Author)
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November 10, 1998
¿Quién o que es responsable por la pobreza que siempre afecta a una misma clase social, del atraso que continua plagando a América Latina y lo relega a una posición tercer mundista?

Esa es la pregunta que se plantea en el nuevo libro de los autores del bestseller Manual del perfecto idiota Latinoamericano, que como forma de respuesta, cita diversos casos de corrupción, por diferentes grupos en el poder y otros grupos de interés mundial.

Entre los implicados están gobiernos, tales como el de Peron en Argentina, el PRI en México y los Sandinistas en Nicaragua; sindicatos como la inflexible unión laboral que contribuye al desempleo, partidos políticos corruptos e ilegales, y agencias gubernamentales, como el sistema universitario que promueve disentimiento radical con la ideología contemporánea de corrupción y desperdicio que prevalece en la burocracia.

El autor también apunta a los empresarios mercantilistas que distorsionan el mercado con sus posiciones privilegiadas como monopolistas, quienes evalúan el costo indirecto que esta pagando la sociedad por el terrorismo y la guerrilla con el resultado económico de tener que financiar milicias para combatir las amenazas internas y externas.

Tres grandes autores crean un comentario provocador y controversial.

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Those who create and sustain poverty in Latin America require a certain twisted talent and dubious diligence. The authors show, with substantial success, that the politicians, Roman Catholic clergy, labor leaders, military officers, and businessmen together produce and maintain impoverishment. Businessmen fear the free market and prefer the cozier framework of mercantilism; a professionalized officer corps keeps capable watch over dissidents; labor officials zealously guard a system that protects the incapable and discourages enterprise; the Catholic clergy marches in step with leftist intellectual attitudes throughout Latin America. The authors describe these mechanisms of control accurately and deftly, illustrating how self-serving practices and ideological justification work together to keep the continent poor. The authors offer no solutions; though they might well have mentioned the positive effect that evangelical Protestantism is having on literacy rates, work discipline, and more. A bit of light in a dark place? After reading this book we need to believe there is such a light.
-John P. Farrance
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Text: Spanish --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 317 pages
  • Publisher: New Media Spanish Language (November 10, 1998)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 0553060945
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553060942
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #485,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A book that helps find out what went wrong in Latin America, April 22, 2000
This review is from: Fabricantes de Miseria: Politicos, curas, militares, empresarios, sindicatos (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)
This book focuses on the way by which latin american organizations (unions, enterprises, universities), institutions (the state, army)and people managed to destroy the potencial for a healthy long-term economic growth and social development. In other words, it tries to identify who were and are being the manufacturers (or creators) of misery, and how did they do it. Though the book is written from an "orthodox" liberal point of view, it doesn't show the arrogancy of "El Manual del Perfecto Idiota Latinoamericano". Instead, the book attributes "guilts" on each and every side fairly. It also succeeds in providing some useful lessons and guidelines about what must be changed in order to let Latin America get into development. And, it is important to notice that most of these lessons are valuable and important besides the reader's ideological perspective.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The truth behind our underdevelopment, July 5, 2002
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Brilliant! An excellent book for those really concerned about the social and economical future of Latin America...For those who want to make a change.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars UN LIBRO QUE TODO LATINOAMERICANO DEBERIA LEER, November 28, 2004
Es un libro interesantísimo que nos da un recorrido por las diferentes rutas que han llevado a latinoamerica a la decadencia de hoy en dia.
Le recomiendo este libro a todo aquel interesado en saber mas allá de lo obvio sobre el origen del subdesarrollo y la miseria en nuestros paises.
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