Résumé en anglais

This paper analyses the way Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Chile responded to the global crisis. It tries to interpret their reactions as indicators of different modes of development. The way these countries responded to the global crisis is connected to the economic, social and political institutions and organizations created in the past, to their responses to previous crises, to the transformation of their economic and social institutions during the 1980s and 1990s, and to their application of the Washington consensus recipes.