Araucaria (Jan 2006)
Visões de brasileiros sobre América Latina: do isolamento à integração
Abstract
The political and cultural distance that still prevails between Brazil and the Hispanic American countries is being gradually diminished in the political plane, mainly with the conformation of regional blocks and cooperation agreements. In the specific plane of social thought, this distance also prevails, but it is possible to observe that the Latin American intellectuals have shared historically a preoccupation about reflecting on continental themes and defining a place for Latin America in a worldwide context. In the beginning there existed a weak bond between Brazilians and their Hispanic American equals. Nevertheless, in the fifties, with the CEPAL movement, and in the seventies, with the Dependency theory, began a greater exchange. Since the late eighties, the insertion of Latin America in the globalized world and the relation between culture and modernity in the subcontinent were themes that stimulated the dialogue between Brazilian and Hispanic American intellectuals, such as Renato Ortiz, Octavio Ianni and Martin Barbero, who are analyzed in this article.
