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Article: Banishing the Mexican revolution.
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- Monthly Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1991
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In the early 1960s, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, some of the faculty were trying to initiate a Latin American studies program. To raise interest, they brought to campus a Mexican economist named Edmundo Flores. Flores must have seen his role as one of provocation, for each of his lectures was sprinkled with lines that were aimed at shocking his audience. I recall, for example, one lecture he began by stating, "In Latin America, when we say 'economics,' we mean Marxian economics." Remember, this was the University of Chicago! From another lecture, I recollect his definition of land reform, "In Latin America, when we say 'land reform,' we ...