The Construction of the Neo-colonial State: The Nicaraguan Encounter with Dollar Diplomacy

This article describes the political and economic practices that characterized the dollar diplomacy in Nicaragua. It illustrates how the novel U.S. economic project, intended to modernize the Latin American States, turned out to be a feudal, anti-modern project, from the point of view of Nicaraguan...

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Autor: Gobat, Michel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Ecuador
Institución:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repositorio:Revista ICONOS
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/328
Acceso en línea:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/328
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:dollar diplomacy
imperialism
United States
Nicaragua
1912-1927
diplomacia del dólar
imperialismo
Estados Unidos
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Sumario:This article describes the political and economic practices that characterized the dollar diplomacy in Nicaragua. It illustrates how the novel U.S. economic project, intended to modernize the Latin American States, turned out to be a feudal, anti-modern project, from the point of view of Nicaraguan upper classes. Some of the unforeseen effects of this imperialist policy let the author show that the analysis of economic and social conditions carried out by a privileged section of society may conceal or misrepresented the economic and social conditions of other groups. Doing this the privileged sectors of society present their own experience as a generalized experience.