%0 Journal Article %T Las £¿idas£¿ y £¿regresos£¿ del Estado %A Vilas %A Carlos M %J Utop¨¬a y Praxis Latinoamericana %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X latin america was a testing ground of neoliberalism over three decades, and part of the political agenda promoted jointly by the world bank, international monetary fund and the treasury of the united states government, as thereafter was called £¿washington consensus£¿, a paradigm adopted by governments strongly authoritarian or dictatorial also governments of democracy, and accompanied by the slogan of the end of the state. the metaphor of the state £¿going£¿ or £¿come£¿ can not allowed to see the changes in goals and styles of state action always respond to changes in power relations between social actors and the effectiveness of the political. %K neoliberalism %K state %K democracy %K latin america. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1315-52162010000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en