ABSTRACT
Since the early 1950s, Latin America has experienced the dismal consequences of what the post–WW II US administrations implemented as development programs aimed at the “modernization” of the underdeveloped and rural society of the hemisphere. What in reality these policies, proposed by Harvard sociologist Talcott Parsons and President J. F. Kennedy’ advisor Walter Rostow, meant was the continuation of the centuries-old colonial practices of the “English Enclosures,” the “Spanish Reducciones and Encomiendas,” the US deportation and reservation practices, and the more contemporary execution of land and territory seizure and annexation. This chapter analyzes some examples of these persistent genocidal practices and the indigenous people organized responses expressed in uprising and resistance, circular migration, land-territorial reoccupation, and cosmological reconfiguration.
