THE HEGEMONIC DISCOURSE ON DEMOCRACY IN

What about Latin American democracy is told to us by blatantly hegemonic right-wing, “yankee-ized” and neoliberal discourse? What is the image of the political map of Latin America broadcasted by the mass media? Gaya Makaran, a Polish Latin American researcher, uses Bolivia as an example, a country...

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Autor principal: Makaran, Gaya
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe 2011
Acceso en línea:http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/archipielago/article/view/24318
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Sumario:What about Latin American democracy is told to us by blatantly hegemonic right-wing, “yankee-ized” and neoliberal discourse? What is the image of the political map of Latin America broadcasted by the mass media? Gaya Makaran, a Polish Latin American researcher, uses Bolivia as an example, a country now undergoing a deep transformation, to underline the paradoxically hegemonic discourse about Latin American democracy, in which democratic governments represent only the elite, repressing desires of the majority.