Political Report #1448 A New “Good Neighbor Policy”
Political Report #1448 Long Overdue For Latin America: A New “Good Neighbor Policy” | July 28, 2020
by Medea Benjamin and Steve Ellner posted by Counterpounch
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U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. Try as it might, the Trump regime-change team has been unable to depose President Maduro and finds itself stuck with a self-proclaimed president, Juan Guaidó, who President Trump was reported to have called “a kid” who “doesn’t have what it takes.” The Venezuelan people have paid a heavy price for Trump’s debacle, which has included crippling […]
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Trump’s Second Thoughts on Juan Guaido are Not Enough
| Political Report # 1446 | June 25, 2020
Consortium News, Steve Ellner |
| After nearly a year and a half of all-out efforts at regime change in Venezuela which took a major toll on the Venezuelan people, Trump now tells the world he was never big on the strategy in the first place. On Friday, Trump appeared to shove the blame onto advisors, and added “I think that I wasn’t necessarily in favor” of the policy of recognizing Juan Guaidó as president, but “I was OK with it.”Trump’s statements made it seem as if Guaidó’s only sin was that he did not manage to seize power. This […] |
México: La coyuntura de la 4T y la Covid-19
Por: Mauricio F. López Barreto, Posdoctorante en el Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Cephcis-UNAM)
Traspatio Maya en una comunidad del municipio de Yaxcabá, Yucatán. Fuente: el autor. | July 13, 2020
El advenimiento de la pandemia Covid-19 a principios del año en curso, vino a reforzar la tesis de prestigiosos intelectuales y académicos que el modelo neoliberal ha fracasado. En general, en el ámbito mundial se ensanchó la brecha de la desigualdad, aumentó el número de pobres, se normalizó la concentración de la riqueza en unos pocos, se hizo patente la […]
Political Report #1447 How will Venezuela’s High Court Affect the Election?
Political Report #1447 How will Venezuela’s High Court Affect the Election? comments by Steve Ellner and Marc Becker, LAP Editors
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court earlier this month seated a new electoral commission after ruling that the opposition-controlled National Assembly did not appoint rectors to the country’s electoral authority in time. How will the Supreme Court’s actions affect the scheduling of the election and its outcome? Is Juan Guaidó, who has international recognition as Venezuela’s legitimate president, likely […]
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Trump’s Second Thoughts on Juan Guaido are Not Enough
| Political Report # 1446
Trump’s Second Thoughts on Juan Guaido are Not Enough |
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Abstract, Neoliberal Urbanization and Synergistic Violence in Postearthquake Concepción
Neoliberal Urbanization and Synergistic Violence in Postearthquake Concepción | July 3, 2020
by Christian Paulo Matus Madrid, Rodrigo Ganter, Juan Antonio Carrasco, and Camila Barraza Huaiquimilla
The Chilean neoliberal state’s institutional strategy for displacing a historical population from Aurora de Chile, a centrally located area with real estate value in the city of Concepción, combined three types of violence: shock urbanization, which used the 2010 earthquake as an opportunity to impose the construction of major infrastructure, the construction of public opinion aimed at naturalizing displacement, and the strategic use of participation as a disciplinary socio-technical […]
Abstract, Remittances, the Rescaling of Social Conflicts, and the Stasis of Elite Rule in El Salvador
Remittances, the Rescaling of Social Conflicts, and the Stasis of Elite Rule in El Salvador
by Hannes Warnecke-Berger | July 1, 2020
Remittances are the dominant factor in the contemporary economy of El Salvador, which is enjoying a new comparative advantage in the international economic system—the export of cheap labor to the Global North and particularly the United States. The Salvadoran economy is part of a transnational economic space, but this space is perverse: Although the poor are nominally receiving more money, remittances cause them to be caught in a vicious cycle of economic instability. At the same […]
Abstract, Remittances, the Rescaling of Social Conflicts, and the Stasis of Elite Rule in El Salvador
by Hannes Warnecke-Berger | July 1, 2020
Remittances are the dominant factor in the contemporary economy of El Salvador, which is enjoying a new comparative advantage in the international economic system—the export of cheap labor to the Global North and particularly the United States. The Salvadoran economy is part of a transnational economic space, but this space is perverse: Although the poor are nominally receiving more money, remittances cause them to be caught in a vicious cycle of economic instability. At the same time, the elites are able to access remittances indirectly by becoming a Keynesian oligarchy—an oligarchy […]