Brief historical view of the internal Latin American markets and their relationship with the current state of general development

Abstract

There are many points of view that try to answer the economic backwardness of the countries that make up Latin America. Among some of them, the so-called "dependency theory" has emerged as a structural-historical explanation of Latin American development, creating a space in the "Marxist" discourse for the concept of "dependence". It is not enough to dust off those apparent and old conclusions that were elaborated in the mid-twentieth century by prominent economists who had emancipated themselves from the intellectual development of classical theories and strict Marxist theories to explain economic development in Latin America. However, the present elucidation only includes some elements of analysis of the "dependency theory" and conjugates them with historical facts to answer, succinctly, that the economic development guidelines in Latin America were generated from a historical matrix and structural, which is already evident in the nineteenth century.