Entre guerra fría y tercer mundo: Urbanización y subdesarrollo en Latinoamérica, 1960-1980

framed within the economic, political and social relationship between industrialization and urbanization, the article aims at illustrating how the imbalance between the latter and the productive system explains latin america？s failed development between the cuban revolution and the alliance for progress, by the early 1960s, and the failure of modernization, by the late 1970s. the article relies on the premise that urbanization and development studies have often lacked historical perspective, so an overall approach of political, economic and intellectual changes is necessary, all of which ought to provide a long-term view as a possible contribution of this research