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• Latin American Left

  “Latin America: Liberation in progress” – “Reality can’t be radically transformed only through institutions”

  7 March 2016, by GAUDICHAUD Franck

  By the end of 2015, researcher and teacher Franck Gaudichaud published in Chile the book “Latin America: Liberation in progress” , which compiles texts from different authors on several political processes of emancipation in the sub-continent. Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, (...)

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  Is South America’s ‘progressive cycle’ at an end? – Neo-developmentalist attempts and socialist projects

  3 February 2016, by KATZ Claudio

  In this ambitious and compelling overview of the strategic and programmatic issues at stake in South America today, Argentine political economist Claudio Katz expands on many of the observations he made in an earlier interview while critically analyzing contrasting approaches to development (...)

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  South America: end of a cycle? Popular movements, “progressive” governments and eco-socialist alternatives

  1 November 2015, by GAUDICHAUD Franck

  More than 40 years after the coup d’état that defeated the Chilean road to socialism and 30 years since the foundation of the largest social movement on the continent, the Movimiento de trabajadores rurales sin tierra (MST - Movement of Landless Rural Workers) of Brazil; 20 years since the (...)

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  New colonialisms and the crisis of left values – The Russian intervention in Syria or why are voices from the Latin American left raised in support of Putin?

  16 October 2015, by ZIBECHI Raúl

  When visibility is minimal because powerful storms cloud the perception of reality, it may be appropriate to enlarge one’s view, to climb slopes to look for broader observation points, in order to discern the context in which we move. In these times, when the world is crossing through multiple (...)

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  Eduardo Galeano – ¡Presente! – “For fifty years, the world-renowned leftist Uruguayan journalist and writer’s voice spoke truth to power and inspired the oppressed”

  13 April 2015, by LA BOTZ Dan

  Eduardo Galeano, the world-renowned leftist Uruguayan journalist and writer made famous with the publication in 1971 of his book The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, died today at the age of 74 in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he lived. Long admired as a (...)

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  Finance: Bank abuses in the real estate sector and illegal foreclosures in the United States

  4 April 2014, by TOUSSAINT Eric

  From 2010 to 2013, US authorities made agreements with banks, not to prosecute them in the home mortgage and illegal foreclosures scandal. Instead, they merely had to pay a small fine. Since the outbreak of the crisis in 2006-2007, more than 14 million families have been evicted from their (...)

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  Latin America, the Left and the Progressives: Ten theses on a divorce

  1 March 2014, by GUDYNAS Eduardo

  With different nuances and variants, Latin America’s “progressive” governments are no longer questioning the myth of progress, are practicing intensive extractivism, are resigned to corruption and favor hyper-presidentialism. What’s Left in this?
  Governments of the new Left have been dominating (...)

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  “Words that must be said”: Interview with Eduardo Galeano

  30 November 2000, by GALEANO Eduardo, SHERMAN Scott

  Eduardo Galeano is regarded as one of Latin America’s fiercest voices of social conscience. Yet he insists that language — its secrets, mysteries, and masks — always comes first.
  “The division of labor among nations,” Eduardo Galeano proclaimed in the opening sentence of Open Veins of Latin (...)