Liberty for Latin America : how to undo five hundred years of state oppression
/ Alvaro Vargas Llosa
- 1st ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2005.
- 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-262) and index.
Pt. 1. What failed. The five principles of oppression -- The twentieth century : the hour of the snail -- Friendly fire from the United States -- Part 2 : What succeeded. What could have been -- The liberal tradition -- Part 3 : Reform. When things looked right, they were wrong -- The fever of change -- The capitalist mirage -- Corruption and the ethical abyss -- Part 4 : Turning the tide. Liberty for Latin America.
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