The Concentrating Pattern of Latin American Development: The Case of Pedro Vuskovic

This article seeks to thematize the intellectual core of Pedro Vuskovic's work on the path to development taken by Latin America, mainly throughout the 20th century. To do this, his analysis of the period of "import substitution industrialization" and the subsequent export reconversion of the Latin American economy is described, then emphasizing the external and internal transition to the visible crisis in that region in the 70s and 80s. In this general framework, the relevance obtained by what Vuskovic understands as a kind of general pattern of "concentrating" development of Latin American societies is observed, which sharpens their relationship of dependency with the outside and intensifies the social and political problems in the interior of the continent. At the end, the two alternatives described by Vuskovic about the historical trajectory followed by Latin America are problematized, namely: deepening or breaking of that general pattern of development.