24/12/2019
2019 Latin America in Review: Year of the Revolt of the Dispossessed
Human Wrongs Watch
By Roger Harris | COHA – TRANSCEND Media Service*
A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.”
Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against the barbarism of neoliberalism. As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute. What follows is a briefing on this crossroads.
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