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    On Friday, July 15, 2016 1:37 AM, The Bullet <info@...>
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    A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1281 .... July 15, 2016
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    Reactionary Tide in Latin America
    <http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1281.php> Michael Löwy
    Since the beginning of the 21st cen­tury, the Left has won elections in
    most Latin American countries, in a powerful wave of popular rejection of
    the disastrous neoliberal policies of the previous regimes. One must
    however distinguish between two quite different sorts of left governments:
    
    1. Social-liberal coalitions, which do not break with the fundamental
    "Washington Consensus" but implement several progressive social measures.
    The basic principle of this sort of government is to do what is possible to
    improve the situation of the poor -- on the condition not to touch the
    privileges of the rich. The left, or center-left governments of Brazil,
    Uruguay and Chile are the most obvious examples.
    
    2. Anti-oligarchic, anti-neoliberal and anti-imperialist governments, who
    set as their historical horizon "Socialism of the 21st Century." Venezuela,
    Bolivia and Ecuador belong to this category.
    
    Other leftist governments, in Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador or
    Argentina, seem to be somewhere in between, or on the margins, of these two
    types. Substantial gains were made by the popular layers in most of these
    countries, thanks to the social redistribution of the rent, particularly
    from oil and gas extraction (Venezuela and Bolivia). But none of these
    governments effectively confronted the basic structures of the capitalist
    system, and no real attempt was made toward a transition to socialism. So
    far, socialist Cuba with all its shortcomings remains the only such
    experience.
    
    There were also no attempts to move beyond dependency on fossil fuels,
    except for a short period when the government of Raphael Correa in Ecuador
    decided to accept the Park Yasuni Project of the ecological and indigenous
    movements. The proposal was to leave, in this forest area inhabited by
    peasant communities, the oil in the soil, but require the rich countries of
    the North to pay half of its value as a compensation to the Ecuadorian
    people. As one would expect, the rich capitalist governments were not
    interested, and Correa finally gave up, and opened the Yasuni Park to the
    oil companies.
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