Prof. Aviva Chomsky, author of Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration and the daughter of Noam Chomsky, discusses the US’ support for right wing governments in Latin America which followed Washington imposed neoliberalism and the foreign investment model of economic extractivism. How Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela provided a different path for Latin American nations to avoid neoliberalism imposed by the US, IMF and World Bank. The US demand that Latin American policies must be favourable for US corporations which in turn hurts the working classes of Latin America. The US government’s to destroy left wing politics within trade unions in the United States, Latin America and around the world. The US-backed overthrow of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in 2009. Why Biden’s foreign policy to Latin America will be unlikely to diverge from past US Presidents.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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