Crisis of the nation state in Latin America

The article argue that que most effective states are those whose societies are sufficiently homogeneous and egalitarian to set the ground for the creation of a common sense of citizenship. This, in turn, allow states to develop effective infraestructural powers to mobilize resources and so promote development. In the long run such states will also become democratic. Latin American states have major failings in this respect. These form the "structural crisis" of the region nation-states. In addition we have witnessed two more recent "situational crisis". debts and drugs, which have exacerbate the more longterm structural crisis.