Economy in the post-war period

Post-war economic situation characterized mostly two big processes economically and the long wave of capitalist growth and its significant strengthening of social movements of various kinds, which in the span of several decades significantly modified the structure and functioning of the global social system.

We see that the decade of the sixties was marked by the deepening and generalization of what we could call the country’s political crisis, from its emergence as a political community mediated by the North American presence. Rehabilitation of the liberal electoral regime in its process that combines gradual and constant progress with critical moments that make leaps forward.

The national classes, as an expression of the accumulation of tension, form a factor and the main reason for destabilization. Not only because it opens the process of social polarization, but also because it affects political fragmentation of dominant groups, deepening their divisions by not reaching an agreement on the best way to solve the problem.

This is clearly visible in the year and a half before the coup d’état rejection of the Robles Johnson agreement confirms that the critical situation opened in 1964 has not been closed. The necessary and somewhat desperate search for a replacement alternative, within the institutional framework of the liberal regime, will first go through the legislative coup against President Robles (1964-1968), frustrated by the leadership of the armed forces, and later the attempt to establish the prestige of the old conservative populist caudillo, Arnulfo Arias, in the service of mass neutralization and political stabilization of the country.

Exit extreme and absolute transience of the crisishe will quickly proceed to express the magnitude of the bankruptcy he has suffered electoral regime and the need to continue to a deep reorganization of the form of domination, giving birth to a new political regime on the basis of which he sought they face the political stabilization of the country.