Recolonizing the Continent: Six Coups Against Latin America's Left Since 2000
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Latin American Coups Recolonizing the Continent: Nobel Laureate
15 November 2016
The recent turn to the right in Latin American politics will trigger serious social conflicts and marginalize large sectors of the population, said Argentine Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel.
The human rights activist said in an interview with EFE that Latin America was currently "backtracking on social policies while affirming neoliberalism (dogmatic free-market policies)."
He said the return of neoliberalism and the current crisis of representative democracy were the result of "veiled coups" in recent years, referring to the removal from office via congressional proceedings of three leftist heads of states: Dilma Rousseff in Brazil this year, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo in 2012 and Honduras' Manuel Zelaya in 2009.
"They have no legitimacy. They're
veiled coups, which now don't require the armed forces" but the complicity of politicians, the private sector and the judiciary, according to Perez Esquivel ...........