Seguridad social y neoliberalismo: raíces históricas, conceptuales y su implantación en República Dominicana

This article presents the close relationship between the neoliberal reforms, initiated at global scale since the 1970 decade of the twentieth century, the paradigms that were set off concerning the state’s functions and the social metabolism, as well as of the organizations in charge of setting out the reform agendas in Latin America, likewise the reforms and creation of the Social Security System. From that, it follows the “trace” of political, institutional, strategic, interests, and ideological devices of the Dominican social reform. Similarly, it can be seen this reform’s consequences on the lives and rights enjoyed or violated for all Dominicans, which has its identifiable roots in the history which has been discussed during the academic and political debates of last decades. This article attempts to show that these existential consequences, collective and for Dominican society democracy quality cannot be understood like mere domestic particularities or “not wished effects”, nor it can be explained without power relationships, from winners and losers, like ethicalpolitical options which are the platform of the latter.