What alternative for Latin America?

The “New World (Dis)order” has by now become a commonplace, and a common fate for the world’s peoples. With all nations forced to become “winners” or perish, every national entity, large or small, North or South, capitalist or “ex-communist” is being put on the same boring, but deadly, diet— deregulation, privatisation, “flexibilisation”—in the name of achieving the unachievable holy grail of competitiveness.