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Alternative Visions – The Right Wing Offensive in South America: An Eyewitness Report – 04.01.16


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Jack Rasmus welcomes Pablo Vivanco, political commentator in Quito,
Ecuador to provide a latest update on the right wing economic and
political forces in ascendance in South America, focusing on the latest
developments in Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. As the economic crisis
deepens throughout the region due to forces beyond the control of
progressive governments in the region—i.e. falling oil and commodity
prices, collapsing currencies, capital flight, slowing global
economy—right wing forces (with assistance of US government and elite)
have launched in the past year an intense attack throughout South
America to reverse the tide of progressive governments that came to
power since 2000. Vivanco describes the strategies and tactics, economic
and political, currently being employed by the nascent Right Wing
Offensive, including efforts to depose recently duly elected governments
in Venezuela and Brazil and the launching of intense austerity
measures, shutting down of independent media, mass layoffs, while
rewarding of global bankers and investors by the new right wing
government of billionaire, Mauricio Macri, in Argentina.  New popular
movements of resistance are described by Vivanco, as are efforts of the
new right wing forces and governments to stifle independent journalists
and media outlets throughout the region.Pablo Vivanco is
currently Director of the English Division of Telesur Media in Latin
America, a consortium of progressive Latin American countries. A former
radio host of ‘Voces Latinas’, he is a long time activist in movements
for progressive change in Latin America, living and working in Quito.
For timely reports in English on daily Latin American political events,
go to: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/index.html
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