“…Yet many of the political-economic factors structuralist and dependency thinkers identified in the late twentieth century remain at play in Latin America today (see, e.g. Giraudo, 2020; Santos, 2023; Torres and Ahumada, 2022). Despite the growth of the service and finance sectors, most Latin American countries, especially in South America, remain heavily dependent on the export of oil, minerals, and agriculture, which generates considerable economic and political instability and causes enormous socioenvironmental damage (Svampa, 2015).…”