U.S. Fighting Losing Battles Against National Self-Determination http://alainet.org/active/37276&lang=es

But the problem is much more general and extends to U.S. foreign policy throughout the world. Washington claims to support "democracy," but democracy without self-determination is a very limited form of democracy. It is a great irony that Latin America, for example, had more self-determination in the realm of economic policy from 1950 to 1980, when much of the region lived under dictatorships, than it had after formal democracy became widespread. Not surprisingly, the region's economy grew enormously faster between 1950 and 1980 than it has in the last 30 years [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/brazils-differences-with-washington-are-unavoidable-and-positive/], when "Washington consensus" economic policies became the norm.