October 23, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia)
Neoliberalism
is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again,
is showing the way. Against the vicious, one-size-fits-all IMF austerity
prescription, which deploys weapons of mass economic destruction to smash
national sovereignty and foster social inequality, South America finally seems
poised to reclaim the power to forge its own history.
Three
presidential elections are in play. Bolivia’s seem to have been settled this
past Sunday – even as the usual suspects are yelling “Fraud!” Argentina and
Uruguay are on next Sunday.
Blowback
against what David Harvey has splendidly conceptualized as accumulation
by dispossession is, and will continue to be, a bitch. It will
eventually reach Brazil – which as it stands continues to be torn to pieces by
Pinochetist ghosts. Brazil, eventually, after immense pain, will rise up again.
After all, the excluded and humiliated all across South America are finally
discovering they