Global Compact as a response to the crisis

Abstract

With the reforms of the mid-70s began a transformation of the international correlation of forces, which led to an economic, political and social process known as Neoliberalism. These policies resulted in unemployment and global impoverishment. However, the crisis of this imperialist strategy was swift and people resisted dispossession in various ways. The crisis process inaugurated at the beginning of the century has global implications and a civilizing scale. In Latin America, the accumulation of popular resistance experiences, which addressed different issues, developed with the construction of political alternatives. Dominant sectors, thus, were forced to redesign the strategy so as to regain the offensive as well as to placate discontent and dispute. This process has two organic axes: the reconfiguration of consensus and the repressive movement. This paper attempts to analyze the Global Compact as one of the international hegemonic strategies to face the crisis, through the study of sources and documents produced by the United Nations and its agencies, as well as through the fieldwork carried out by the Author.