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The Impact of the Anglo-Guatemalan Dispute on the Internal Politics of Belize

In general terms, the framework for dependency perspectives postulates the existence of advanced capitalist economies that subjugate and exploit the natural resources of peripheral economies through commercial and financial mechanisms. Obstacles to the development of peripheral economies include dependence on foreign capital and technologies that do not correspond to needs of the countries, and overall subordination includes political, military, and cultural, in addition to, and because of, economic subordination. Development is viewed, then, as an interdependent process in which some countries or regions acquire a predominant place within the division of labor by reserving for themselves the most lucrative economic activities, while other countries or regions are relegated to serving as sources of cheap raw materials, as markets for manufactured goods, or as arenas for foreign capital. There is a great diversity of analysis and perspectives within the so-called dependency school (see, for instance, Bodenheimer, 1971: 327-357; Furtado, 1976; Cardoso, 1977: 7-24; Palma, 1978: 881-902; Santos, 1979: 17-26). One of the central issues that divides the theorists is the question of the existence, the character, and the power of a