Abstract

MORENO MARTINEZ, Óscar D. The Strike of April in 1992. Privatization and Resistance in the National Telecommunications Company of Colombia (Telecom). Mem. Soc. [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.35, pp.198-216. ISSN 0122-5197.

This article recounts the April 1992 strike that the organized workers of the National Telecommunications Company (Telecom) unleashed to protest against the privatization ATTempt of this public company proposed by the government of César Gaviria (19901994), a strike that so far had not been narrated from a historical perspective. After reviewing the concept of Neoliberalism, the author focuses on the economic policy changes and the new forms of state that appeared in the nineties, giving a brief historical context of the predominant forms in the second half of the twentieth century.

Keywords : Telecom Colombia; Strike of 1992; Neolibera-lism; Import substitution; Opening, State monopolies; Resistance to change; Colombia telecommunications; Telecommunications industry-Privatization-Colombia; International economy.

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