latin america

The Latin American left’s setbacks: What does it all mean?

Interview with Steve Ellner by Alan Freeman

Venezuela defines the future of the region

By Claudio Katz, translation by Nicolas Allen

Is Latin America still the US’s 'backyard'?

By Alexander Main September 17,

Bolivia VP Alvaro Garcia Linera on the ebbing Latin American tide

Extracts of vive-president Garcia Linera's

Bolivia’s ‘process of change’ needs a change in course – Pablo Solón

Introduction and translation by Richard Fidler September 8, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Life on the Left with permission — The global drop in commodity prices has been detrimental to the development strategy of many Latin American governments, some of which had used the new income from increased exports of largely unprocessed resources, accompanied by higher royalties and taxes, during the last decade to reduce poverty levels and reinforce and institute new social programs, while attempting to create new industries oriented to the domestic market or adding value to their exports.

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