scholarly journals Die hegemoniale Krise und die Krise der Linken in Lateinamerika

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (141) ◽  
pp. 541-549
Author(s):  
Emir Sader
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Fiscal Adjustment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Step Down ◽  
To Come ◽  
Latin American Left ◽  
American Left

Since the economic crises of 1994 in Mexico, 1999 in Brazil, and 2001 in Argentina, the neoliberal model has been loosing its legitimacy all over Latin America. Being confronted with massive popular protests, more than ten governments have had to step down in the last couple of years. But so far, the Latin American left has not been able to come up with an alternative project, which could effectively challenge the neoliberal hegemony. In fact, the recently elected left governments of Lula in Brazil and Tabaré Vazquez in Uruguay continue their predecessors' politics of fiscal adjustment. The article discusses the origins, strengths, and weaknesses of neoliberal hegemony in Latin America, and the future perspectives for a strong antineoliberal movement.

The Palestinian Diaspora and Latin American Solidarity with the Palestinian Cause: Brazil as a Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasem Bisharat
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Latin American Left ◽  
American Left

The Palestinian diaspora and Arab communities in Latin America, especially in Brazil, have contributed significantly to the Palestinian cause in Latin America. The convergence between these communities and union and left parties encouraged the left to include the Palestinian cause on its agenda. Brazil may be considered a model in this respect because of the influence of its Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers’ Party—PT), which led the Latin American left after the founding of the São Paulo Forum in 1992. The Palestinian community has an even greater role to play today, the more so since the PT’s exclusion from power favors Israel at the expense of the Palestinian cause. A diáspora palestina e as comunidades árabes na América Latina, especialmente no Brasil, teem contribuído significativamente para a causa palestina na América Latina. A convergência entre essas comunidades, sindicatos e partidos de esquerda levou a esquerda a incluir a causa palestina em sua agenda. O Brasil pode ser considerado um modelo nesse aspecto devido à influência do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), que liderou a esquerda latino-americana após a fundação do Fórum de São Paulo em 1992. A comunidade palestina tem uma relevância ainda maior já que a perda de poder do PT favorece Israel em detrimento da causa palestina.

scholarly journals Latin American “left drift” is set to the right (some finishing touches to the “portrait” of the “right turn”)

2016 ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Liudmila Okuneva
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Left ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Left

The article deals with the reflections on the concept of the “right” and the “left” in Latin America, on the causes and characteristics of the completion of the “leftist cycle” and the advent of the “right turn”.

scholarly journals Latin America in times of Neoliberal Restoration. What should we do?

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (61) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Andrés Mora-Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Latin American Left ◽  
The Right ◽  
American Left

This essay offers an interpretation of the Latin America conjuncture of the last two/three years. On one hand, the conjuncture is characterized by what the analyst call de end of the progressive national and popular cycle.  On the other hand the conjuncture is marked by the electoral rising of the right wing governments and parties,they are driving the restoration of the neoliberal project in the region. We present a contextualization of this double process and its main conflict dimension and we reflect from a position of identification and critical accompaniment of the national, popular, progressive, Latin American project. We also reflect on the need of the social movements, political parties and organic intellectuals of the Latin American left wing to assume, as a task, the dispute for the political and cultural hegemony vis-a-vis of the project of reviving the neoliberalism.

scholarly journals Neoliberal disruption and neoliberalism’s afterlife in Latin America: What is left of post-neoliberalism?

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Grugel ◽  
Pia Riggirozzi
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Latin American Left ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Left

The rejection of neoliberalism in Latin America at the time of the new millennium led to a wave of ‘post-neoliberal’ governments that sought to renegotiate the relationship between state and market and pioneer new forms of inclusive welfare. These governments attempted to implement a new economic model that bore some similarities to social democracy, alongside greater emphasis on recognition and identity politics. As this period gradually closes, we ask what accounts for the difficulties of institutionalising redistributive Leftist governance in Latin America. In so doing, we draw attention to the embeddedness of the idea of neoliberal governance, globally and regionally. Whilst the weaknesses of the Latin American Left are real, the return of neoliberalism reflects the fact it is still status quo governance everywhere.

scholarly journals The processes of “democratic transition” in Latin America in the end of the XX - beginning of the XXI century and leftist forces of the region

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 126-146
Author(s):  
Andreev Anton ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Civilian Control ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Transition Processes ◽  
Latin American Region ◽  
Latin American Left ◽  
American Left

Democratic transition processes manifested in the Latin American region since the mid-1980s. – the period of the beginning of the “fall” of military dictatorships and the return to civilian control. These processes were directed and organized by left-wing forces, which not only participated in struggle against dictatorships, but also took part in the restoration of key political institutions - elections, courts, and the adoption of new constitutions. This article, based on archival materials, media materials, memoirs, determines the features of the participation of Latin American left forces in the democratic transition, their place in the formed political structures in the context of the legacy of the Comintern and new opportunities.

Crisis in the Eye of the Beholder

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 1179-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grigore Pop-Eleches
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
International Monetary Fund Program

This article analyzes the interaction between economic crises and partisan politics during International Monetary Fund program initiation in Latin America in the 1980s and Eastern Europe in the 1990s. The author argues that economic crises are at least in part in the eye of the beholder, and therefore policy responses reflect the interaction between crisis intensity and the government's partisan interpretation of the crisis, which in turn depends on the nature of the economic crisis and its broader regional and international environment. Using cross-country statistical evidence from the two regions, the article shows that certain types of crises, such as liquidity shortfalls, elicit similar responses across the ideological spectrum and regional contexts. By contrast, debt repayment and domestic crises are more prone to divergent ideological interpretations, but the extent of partisan divergence is context sensitive in that it occurred during the Latin American debt crisis but not in the post-communist transition.

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