{"id":14775,"date":"2010-10-22T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T02:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14775"},"modified":"2010-10-22T20:56:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T02:56:19","slug":"latin-america-roads-to-21st-century-capitalist-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14775","title":{"rendered":"Latin America: Roads to 21st Century Capitalist Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lahaine.org\/petras\/index.php?p=1825&#038;c=1\">James Petras<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the better part of the present decade, Latin  American stock markets have boomed. Overseas investors have reaped and  repatriated billions in dividends, profits and interest payments.  Multi-national corporations have piled into mining, agro-business and  related sectors, unimpeded and with virtually no demands by local  regions for \u2018technological transfers\u2019 and environmental constraints.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10.18.2010<\/p>\n<p>Latin American regimes, have accumulated unprecedented foreign  currency reserves to ensure that foreign investors have unlimited access  to hard currencies to remit profits. The decade has witnessed  unprecedented political and social demobilization of radical social  movements. Regimes have provided political and social protection for  foreign and national investors as well as long term guarantees of  private property rights.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lahaine.org\/petras\/b2-img\/petras_roads.pdf\">Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Petras Over the better part of the present decade, Latin American stock markets have boomed. Overseas investors have reaped and repatriated billions in dividends, profits and interest payments. Multi-national corporations have piled into mining, agro-business and related sectors, unimpeded &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=14775\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Qj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14775"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14779,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions\/14779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}