From the crisis of progressivism to the progress of the crisis

Luis Rangel — 2020-03-01T06:45:21Z

In recent years, debates in the international Left on Latin America have tended to focus on countries with governments that, in different ways and at different tempos, separated themselves somewhat from their nations' traditional oligarchies (sometimes more discursively than really): Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador. In general, without downplaying their political and economic importance, but as the situation dictated, the emphasis has been on Venezuela, Brazil, or Argentina. Even Ecuador seemed to be an add-on to the “progressive axis” in international analyses. Then we saw, one-by-one, the progressive experiments fall, wear out, and enter into crisis. Debates revolved around the “end of the cycle” and the menacing Right coming for revenge. There were urgent calls to stop the enemy, and for unity.

- IV542 - March 2020 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Nicaragua

July 1, 2018 - a new historical period opens

Luis Rangel — 2018-07-05T11:42:21Z

Around 11 pm on July 1, 2018, after an election day that had kept the country holding its breath, Lorenzo Córdova (the President of Mexico's National Electoral Institute) announced, confirmed, a trend that could only have been overcome with an ignominious electoral fraud of unprecedented proportions (which it is saying a lot) in the recent history of Mexico. The vote for Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) of the MORENA party, which will surpass 53% of the effective vote, obtained with record participation levels (above 60%), will make him president with a historical democratic legitimacy. In record time all the important actors of the regime (the opposition candidates, the National Electoral Institute, PeÃ±a Nieto, Trump, employers' groups and the mass media) recognized the triumph of Obrador.

- IV522 - July 2018 / Mexico

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From the crisis of progressivism to the progress of the crisis

July 1, 2018 - a new historical period opens