This article intends to introduce a few characteristics of the process of globalization of education, considered one of the elements of the new phase of capitalist internationalization and accumulation which has been put through hegemonically by collective political actors that adopted the neoliberal project of sociability (especially the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, the conductors of structural reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean). The article also describes the consequences of this project's implementation on educational policies of the region, specifically Brazil and Venezuela, from the 80's until now.
education-Brazil; education-Venezuela; educational policies; globalization