COMMENT ON ARTURO ESCOBAR'S 'LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS: ALTERNATIVE MODERNIZATIONS, POST-LIBERALISM, OR POST-DEVELOPMENT?'.

In this article, the author discusses the paper of Arturo Escobar on social movements, political ecology, and development in Latin America. The author states that the paper considers the neo-liberalism in Latin America as a dismal failure. He says that the criticism of Escobar against Bolivian Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera must consider the implication of de-colonial politics in Bolivia. He says that the argument of Escobar on communalism in Bolivia is a form of modernists analysis.