Power and Politics in Latin America
Submitted by GerardoRenique on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 11:44am
Panel Abstract:
The 2010 reelection of Evo Morales in Bolivia and Brazil's election of a third consecutive Labor Party (PT) administration marked the second decade of the new period initiated with the December 1998 election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, characterized by the emergence of progressive and left governments in Latin America. 2010 was also marked by worrisome challenges to the authority and legitimacy of the region’s progressive regimes: from the electoral gains of the rightwing opposition in Venezuela and Argentina, the police uprising in Ecuador, to the separatist insurrection of the eastern regional oligarchy in Bolivia. Panelists will examine the impact of these crises on both the regional strategies of integration and cooperation, and social policies sustaining the progressive regime’s alliances with the popular classes.
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- Latin America
- M. Panel Session 6—Sunday 12:00 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
- Gerardo Renique—Socialism and Democracy/Brecht Forum
- Approved
- Carlos M. Vilas—Sociology, Universidad Nacional de Lanus, Argentina
- Emelio Betances—Sociology, Gettysburg College
- Gerardo Renique—Socialism and Democracy/Brecht Forum
- Gregory Wilpert—Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Venezuela Analysis
- Marc Becker—Professor of History, Truman State University, Missouri
- Maria Luisa Mendonca—Journalist and Coordinator, Network of Social Justice & Human Rights, Brazil
- Socialism & Democracy / Brecht Forum
- 43
- E311
Panel Abstract:
The 2010 reelection of Evo Morales in Bolivia and Brazil's election of a third consecutive Labor Party (PT) administration marked the second decade of the new period initiated with the December 1998 election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, characterized by the emergence of progressive and left governments in Latin America. 2010 was also marked by worrisome challenges to the authority and legitimacy of the region’s progressive regimes: from the electoral gains of the rightwing opposition in Venezuela and Argentina, the police uprising in Ecuador, to the separatist insurrection of the eastern regional oligarchy in Bolivia. Panelists will examine the impact of these crises on both the regional strategies of integration and cooperation, and social policies sustaining the progressive regime’s alliances with the popular classes.
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