Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2009
The assertion that we are living a moment in which a deep transformation of human relations will emerge is no longer commonplace dictum. Everybody talks of crisis, but not any longer in the purely economic sense of disturbances to the process involving production and consumption, but rather in the sense of general confusion and disarray, in the sense of uncertainty before measures taken unsuccessfully, which often provoke greater inconveniences than those to be remedied.
* The editors thank Professor John J. Kennedy, Director of Latin American Studies at Notre Dame, for his assistance in readying this article for publication.