El militarismo desarrollista en América Latina

Authors

  • Alberto Sepúlveda Almarza

Abstract

In 1964, the government of President João Goulart was overthrown by a military coup. For the first time, the Brazilian soldiers specified that they would not hand over power to another civilian politician, they would be in charge of assuming the task of "modernizing" the country. In the years that followed, military governments emerged in Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia, imbued with the same confidence in their ability to create a modern industrial society. The same happened, to an extent, in Panama. This paper seeks to clarify the model of the political system that the aforementioned military groups intend to develop. To this end, special attention has been devoted to studying their thinking in order to clearly determine their ideology and predict both their eventual future evolution and the possibility of success of this development model.

Keywords:

Latin America, Military Dictatorships, Developmental Militarism, Development Models, Industrialization

Author Biography

Alberto Sepúlveda Almarza

M. A., M. A., L. D., actualmente en la Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts, donde sigue estudios para el doctorado en Relaciones Internacionales. Profesor de política latinoamericana en la Universidad de Northeastern, Boston, Massachusetts.