Latin American adjustment and the IMF : debt or stability?

This study is an examination of the effects of International Monetary Fund, neo-liberal, austerity policies on political instability in Latin America. A case study approach is used to assert the argument that Fund policies, which direct economic reform at the poor and working class, result in food riots, strikes, demonstrations, coups, capital flight and changes in the head of government or political instability. IMF polices and patterns on political instability are examined in Venezuela and Argentina from 1976 to 1992.