Resumen

EUDIS F, Fermín T. Crisis of the Neoliberal Cycle in Countries of the Andean Region. Revista de Ciencias Sociales [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.4, pp.687-698. ISSN 1315-9518.

This article studies the crisis of the neoliberal cycle in countries of the Andean Region in the context of Latin American political changes. It is a documentary-analytical study, based on a bibliographic review and the classification of material for processing the collected data; interpretation of that data is based on the category crisis of the neoliberal cycle. Neo-liberalism reduces the functions of the Andean states to central areas: education, health and citizen safety; privatizes state businesses and public services, where “market reason” takes precedent over the society-State relationship, with nefarious consequences for the population, originating in the time of the democratic rise of anti-neoliberal governments. Conclusions are that at the dawn of the twenty-first century, neo-liberalism enters in crisis when the market manifests its incapacity to counteract high poverty indexes and the deterioration of living conditions for the “people.” The leftist Andean governments introduce changes in the political systems, re-dimensioning the macro-economic adjustment policies and rejecting bilateral and multilateral agreements that promote free markets in the heart of the institutional system of Andean integration.

Palabras clave : State; neo-liberalism; integration; people.