“Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” -- 19th Century Mexican President Porfirio Díaz
2019 Latin America In Review: Year Of The Revolt 
of the Dispossessed By Roger Harris, Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
December 15, 2019 |
EDUCATE!A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.” Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against the barbarism of neoliberalism.
As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute. What follows is a briefing on this crossroads.
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