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Judi Lynn

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Thu Jun 24, 2021, 01:39 AM Jun 2021

The Rebellion of the Latin American Peoples and the Future Do the institutional trend and the politi

The Rebellion of the Latin American Peoples and the Future Do the institutional trend and the politics of the streets fit into the same equation?

June 23, 2021




The historic victory of Pedro Castillo as president-elect of Peru strengthens in geopolitical terms the wing of progressive and left-wing governments and the actions of regional integration of a sovereign and supportive nature in the region.

Beyond the virulent counter-attack that the national and international oligarchy will unleash to block this new emancipatory attempt, the triumph of the relegated people puts a chill on the right-wing restorationist trump card that the election of the banker Lasso in Ecuador represented.

While this is happening on the institutional surface, popular mobilisation continues to grow in an unstoppable unfolding despite the pandemic context, reaching the main countries defending the model of uncompromising accumulation ordered by capital.

The heroic resistance of the Colombian strike against a criminal government, the resounding victory of the Chilean awakening in the constituent elections, the avalanche of votes for a little less than unknown rural teacher in Peru and the great march underway to defend the will expressed at the ballot box; the mobilisation in more than 170 Brazilian cities loudly demanding the end of a military government barely covered by a clownish façade, the triumphant return of the peasant-indigenous social movements to government in Bolivia, even – despite its electoral definition from a regional geopolitical point of view – the relevant role of the indigenous uprising in Ecuador, are all phenomena that are part of this massive rebellion that makes the hearts of the heartless defenders of the status quo tremble.Pressenza

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https://goodmenproject.com/social-justice-2/the-rebellion-of-the-latin-american-peoples-and-the-future/

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