Venezuelans balloted last month – again. Nothing exceptional in a country where citizens have cast their votes in twenty different nationwide elections over the past 17 years – more than once annually, if one draws an average. Yet elections in the Bolivarian republic generate an [...]
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The story of Brazil in the twentieth-century could easily be told simply through the lens of economic development. Existing almost as a colonial satellite of Europe, Brazil before 1930 was an agricultural exporter, selling coffee, sugar, cocoa and rubber to more developed nations. The vast [...]
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Why Venezuela’s Ruling Party Lost Big, and What Comes Next
Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) suffered a devastating loss in Sunday’s parliamentary election. The opposition Democratic Unity Front (MUD) received 56 percent of the popular vote to the PSUV’s 41 [...]
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The role of the indigenous population in the formation of the Bolivarian revolution is one of Latin America’s most important untold stories.
Considered a beacon of twenty-first century Socialism by many, Venezuela is the scenario of ongoing global struggles for the definition of [...]
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Philip Roberts (University of Sydney), ‘The Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement: From Agrarian Reform to Post-Neoliberalism’
This is the fifth seminar in the series organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Date and Location:
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The recent departure of the late Eduardo Galeano, author of the classic Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America), highlights more than ever, especially since the late 1990s, that Latin America has been at the forefront of experiments with alternatives to [...]
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Hundreds of thousands of chiefly white middle class protesters took to the streets in Brazil on 15 March in an organised upsurge of hatred against the federal administration led by President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers’ Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, PT). These [...]
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Barack Obama is a self-declared realist and makes no qualms about it. He admits that on occasion the USA will ‘twist the arm’ of governments that do not follow Washington’s suit. Rather casually, Obama presents such principles as something that comes along with his job – as if USA citizens [...]
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