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Lessons for the left from Correa's presidency

Patrick Guillaudat, Pierre Mouterde — 2016-08-01T06:18:09Z

The earthquake which struck Ecuador's Pacific coast on April 16, 2016 left some heavy traces, and not only in terms of human losses (nearly 700 dead, 6,000 wounded and 30,000 affected) or material damage (between 3 and 4 billion dollars needed for reconstruction), but also in social and political terms. And through the innumerable effects that this earthquake has had on the management of the country, we can understand the tensions and contradictions in the current policies of President Rafael Correa's government

- IV499 - August 2016 / Ecuador

After the elections, a slight hangover?

Pierre Mouterde — 2012-09-08T06:18:55Z

We have all been so mobilised and impassioned by the Quebecois electoral battle of this summer of 2012 that being brought brutally back to earth on the evening of September 4 has not always been easy, notably for the most committed activists of Québec solidaire. After all, many looked to an electoral situation where everything suddenlyseemed possible, thus leaving the door open to a number of unfounded hopes and unrealistic predictions.

- IV452 - September 2012 / Quebec

In the depths of a Chilean winter: the promises of a social and political spring

Pierre Mouterde — 2011-09-09T19:11:10Z

Courtesy of the harsh southern winter, it is in the cold and rain that Chilean students have been fighting for their demands for nearly three months now.
They are nonetheless planting seeds – as the mobilizations of civil society continue to grow – that offer the promise of a formidable social and political spring; a spring which could give us plenty to think about, here in Quebec. Because observing the echoes of this social effervescence which led on 23 and 24 August, 2011 to a general strike called by the trade union movement, you cannot help but be struck by the inescapable dead ends of the neoliberal model and by the means that a society must deploy to try and oppose it successfully.

- IV440 - September 2011 / Chile, Youth and student movements