Keywords
Strike of 1992
Neoliberalism
Import substitution
Opening
State monopolies
Resistance to change
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Abstract
This article recounts the April 1992 strike that the organized workers of the National Telecommunications Company (Telecom) unleashed to protest against the privatization attempt of this public company proposed by the government of César Gaviria (1990-1994), a strike that so far had not been narrated from a historical perspective. After reviewing the concept of Neoliberalism, the author focuses on the economic policy changes and the new forms of state that appeared in the nineties, giving a brief historical context of the predominant forms in the second half of the twentieth century.The journal Memoria y Sociedad is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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