Abstract

Since the beginning of the 1950s, CEPAL Secretary-General, Raúl Prebisch, warned of the deterioration in terms of trade affecting the countries of the subcontinent. The contribution Prebisch made to the message of industrialization prefigured a series of debates that Latin American social sciences would begin to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s. In these exchanges emerged a set of explanatory concepts of the Latin American reality that in the later works were relegated to a second plane. Faced with this recurrent amnesia in the thinking of our countries, it is pertinent to analyze the main styles of development of Uruguay between 1974 and 2014. This work will be caring on by restoring those foundational debates of the Latin American social sciences. In first place, this article aims to analyze the configuration of a style of dependent development from 1973 to 2004. The second main point pretends to examine the characteristics of the economic and social policies implemented by the Frente Amplio governments (2005-2014).

Keywords: Uruguay; economic and social development; Latin America; Marxism; structuralism