Silvana Andrea Figueroa Delgado's objective in this volume is to highlight the economic and political conditions that are required to promote the development of science and technology in such a way that they allow Latin America to overcome underdevelopment and generate well-being.

The author reviews some of the most valuable experiences in terms of development with the intention of pointing out that developed countries have resorted in their consolidation process to policies contrary to those that have been imposed in the region in recent decades. The United Kingdom, Germany and the United States of America are examples that prove the above.

Likewise, it studies the change in policies adopted as a result of the crisis in the 1930s and the Second World War, a change that, like any strategy against the crisis in the capitalist regime, responded to the needs of recomposing the rate. of profit and shaped the economic organization that many have called “globalization,” and that for Latin America and the working classes of the world has meant not greater incorporation but exclusion.

Finally, the author reviews the case of Chile with the purpose of delving into the behavior of the actors in the Latin American sphere and exhibiting the obstacles faced by the promotion of science and technology as a means to overcome underdevelopment in an environment of openness. economical.