Demystifying Neoliberalism in Nicaragua: Democracy and Concessional Foreign Policy, 1990-2006

Abstract

Neoliberalism as an ideology and as a socioeconomic model marked the history of many peoples in the world, it has as many victims as any other conventional war in which as an invariable condition it is always the poor who add to the statistics. Studying neoliberalism from a critical perspective that goes beyond socioeconomic aspects and that measures political and geopolitical features would serve to demystify and dismantle a discourse and intellectual production that legitimize this model from a complacent position. In this article, the interest is more ambitious and complex given that it is not only intended to analyze the neoliberal stage as historical linearity, but as a combination of factors, actors and conceptual categories that have enjoyed a broad theoretical-discursive baggage, but from a shy critical perspective. The objective is to analyze the neoliberal stage of Nicaragua, 1990-2006, from a militant critique that highlights the political and ideological implications of the governments and the exercise of power during that period and emphasizing the link with the hegemonic interests of the United States.