Then came the twin shocks: the (the “Lost Decade”) and the Washington Consensus of the 1990s . The future was privatized. The state, which had been the architect of tomorrow, became the obstacle. As Carlos Fuentes once lamented, Latin America became a region condemned to “repeat its mistakes because it has no memory of its successes.”
The future is not coming. It is not even there. The future is here , buried under decades of failure and amnesia. We just have to dig with the tools our ancestors left us: el ingenio, la resistencia, y la ternura (ingenuity, resistance, and tenderness). volver al futuro latino
Welcome back to the Latino future. You’ve been here all along. Then came the twin shocks: the (the “Lost