Global financial crisis: its social and political impact in Central America

Abstract

The socio-political implications of the current economic crisis in Central America are analysed in the following paper. The temporal range of the analysis includes the first effects of the crisis, at the end of 2008, to the most severe moments, at the end of 2009. One of the most relevant theses in this paper is that the crisis has weakened even more the governmental capability to respond to the needs and demands of the majority in the society. I.e., the crisis has become in an additional obstacle for the governments in order to face the problems that are the roots of its ungovernability

Realidad: Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades No. 123, 2010: 5-47