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New popular resistance in Latin America

Claudio Katz — 2023-02-07T12:02:14Z

Latin America continues to be an area convulsed by popular rebellions and transformative political processes.

- IV577 - February 2023 / Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Honduras

Who's who in Latin America's upheaval

Claudio Katz — 2019-11-25T04:08:02Z

Latin America is experiencing an abrupt change generated by enormous confrontations between the dispossessed and the privileged. This confrontation includes both revolts by the people and reactions by the oppressors.

- IV538 - November 2019 / Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, El Salvador

Argentina in its Labyrinth

Claudio Katz, Nicolas Allen — 2019-06-23T17:32:05Z

Argentina's looming economic crisis is the result of extreme neoliberal policy: as implemented by the military dictatorship, the IMF, and current president Mauricio Macri.

- IV533 - June 2019 / Brazil, Economy, Argentina

The Left and Right in Latin America Today: An Interview with Claudio Katz

Claudio Katz, Jeffery R Webber — 2019-06-21T08:25:26Z

On May 5, 2019 I spoke with Argentine economist Claudio Katz in his Buenos Aires apartment. We discussed themes from his last two books, Neoliberalismo, neodesarrollismo, socialismo (Neoliberalism, neodevelopmentalism, socialism, 2016) and La teorÃa de la dependencia, cincuenta aÃ±os después (Dependency theory, fifty years later, 2018), as well as the complexities of the current regional conjuncture. In an incisive and wide-ranging survey, Katz explains the root causes and timing of the decline of the latest wave of Latin American progressive governments. At the same time, he emphasizes the fragility of the “conservative restoration” as it has unfolded in its wake, captured most eloquently perhaps in the paralysis of the Jair Bolsonaro government in Brazil.

- Features / United States (USA), Brazil, Economy, China, Venezuela, Argentina, Latin America, Ecuador

Venezuela Defines the Future of the Region

Claudio Katz — 2019-02-11T07:15:30Z

The struggle for Venezuela will decide the destiny of Latin America, argues Claudio Katz. We must recognise global Right's hypocrisy in its attempts to topple Maduro. But it doesn't act alone: similar forces are alive inside a government that has failed to counteract economic collapse.

- IV529 - February 2019 / Venezuela

Nicaragua in Pain

Claudio Katz — 2018-10-07T11:55:07Z

Writing about Nicaragua is as painful and sad as it is indispensable. Memories of the Sandinista Revolution are still alive for the generation that lived through it. To remain silent would be an affront to those who took part in that memorable insurrection against Somoza.

- IV525 - October 2018 / Nicaragua

Nicaragua in Pain

Claudio Katz — 2018-07-30T06:58:20Z

- IV522 - July 2018 / Nicaragua

Argentina: Who will pay for the crisis, them or us?

Claudio Katz — 2018-07-03T12:13:45Z

It was always clear that Argentine president Mauricio Macri governed for the rich and that his economic model would lead to a great crisis. The first affirmation was corroborated by the regressive redistribution of income perpetrated by his government over the last two years. The second has begun to be confirmed with the run on the peso during the last week of May 2018. An economic model based on huge external and tax imbalances payed for by external indebtedness is starting to totter. Everyone imagined that the financing would last until 2019, but the end of the film has come early in an unpredictable manner.

- IV522 - July 2018 / Economy, Argentina

Macri's neoliberal fantasies

Claudio Katz — 2018-05-23T18:39:51Z

In the middle of his term, Argentinian president Macri cannot hide the monumental abyss between his promises and reality. The promise was of an influx of dollars to lower inflation, with high growth, job creation, an entrepreneurial boom and eradication of social assistance. A drastic reduction of the fiscal deficit and a flow of money for public works through the ending of corruption was also predicted. It was also proclaimed that the “return to the world” would be rewarded with huge productive financing and an expansion of exports.

- IV520 - May 2018 / Economy, Argentina

Imperialism Today: A Critical Assessment of Latin American Dependency Theory

Claudio Katz — 2018-03-21T10:37:38Z

Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) was a prime exponent of what became known as dependency theory, an attempt to explain the systemic unequal relations of the Latin American countries in particular with the developed economies of the imperialist “North.” He was a close collaborator of, among others, VÃ¢nia Bambirra and the recently-deceased Theotónio Dos Santos. Marini's best-known work, first published in Spanish in 1972, is Dialectics of Dependency.

- Features / Economy, Latin America