ABSTRACT

The relationship between Latin America and Asia is not new. In the ‘Cold War’ years, for instance, Asian and Latin American leaders were the driving force of the Non-Aligned Movement, which sought to give a voice to developing nations in a sharply bipolar world dominated by two superpowers. Decades later, the contrast between the simultaneous winding down of the process of import-substitution industrialization in Latin America and growth and modernization occurring in the Southeast Asian economies, placed the development model driving the ‘Asian miracle’ at the heart of the debate about the strategies that should be adopted by Latin American economies.1