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From the defeat of the coup government in Bolivia, the election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras, and the rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, to the historic election of Gustavo Petro in Colombia and the return of Lula in Brazil, left-leaning governments are changing the political landscape of Latin America. However, even more progressive parties and ruling coalitions have failed to rein in the violence of the resource extraction economy and the domineering power of international capital flowing through mining, drilling, and deforestation operations across the hemisphere. Indigenous and environmental activists from Ecuador to Bolivia say that today’s extractivist economy perpetuates the violence of colonial domination, and warn that things are only going to get worse over the course of the 21st century.Â
In the latest installment of The Marc Steiner Show’s special collaborative series with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), we speak with a panel of Indigenous leaders, environmental activists, and scholars about how extractivism has come to dominate the politics and economics of Latin America, and what forms the anti-extractivist resistance is taking at the local and international level.
Patricia Gualinga is an Indigenous Kichwa leader and lifelong defender of the Amazon rainforest in her community of Sarayaku, Ecuador.Â
Pablo Poveda is a radical economist who works at the Center for Studies of Labor and Agrarian Development (CEDLA), a non-profit think tank in La Paz, Bolivia.
Teresa A. Velásquez is an associate professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino, and the author of Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador.
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Post-Production: Tom Lattanand, Bret Gustafson, Marc Steiner
Audio Post-Production: Tom Lattanand
Translation by: Bret Gustasfson, Adriana Garriga-López, Maria Haro Sly
Voiceover Readers: Adriana Garriga-López, Rael Mora
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Funny how you guys think the predators are big capital from the developed North. As a Venezuelan, I can clearly see governments in power whether left or right in the South are as predatory. We don't need big, bad corporations to destroy our environment. Our left-leaning governments are even worst.
Where is Greg Wilpert? He used to always do these segments on Latin America.
It won't get better with "alternative energy."
Thank you for this. We never get to hear The Indigenous' People's voices and how it is for them under left governments.
False left + extraction vs. real.left
(where? who?)
Gracias a todos por esta conversación esencial. Es imperativo que nosotros en el norte despertemos a las atrocidades del capital en las Américas, y elevemos el cuidado y los futuros esperanzadores de los pueblos indÃgenas.
Thank you all for this essential conversation. It is imperative we in the north wake up to the atrocities of capital across the Americas and uplift the care and hopeful futures of indigenous peoples.
You and Democracy Now are beams in the dark.
Thanks for this excellent video.
It is so sad to see that this program has, at the time of writing, just 1.5K views. It is invariably the case that the more important, more critical the message, the smaller the audience. This has always been my criticism of the so-called progressives here in Latin America, and elsewhere: their thinking is always so narrow-minded, so myopic, so conservative. Progressivism is more an identity than an ideology.
The critiques have contradictions .. you need those same natural resources to industrialize. Those resources need to be nationalized and workers having democratic control. There needs to be a critique of those on this episode or other to present a fuller view of the situation
Todo se pudre en este Perú. El que reclama es "terruco" o comunista " luego es victima de autoridades inclusive. Deben intervenir las organizaciones internacionales de justicia.
I would love to give money here but I am paying credit card interest as I am in debt. I have supported Green peace since 1986 but can not afford to do that. and now I hear they have been infiltrated and corrupted. I am afraid the US is a lost cause.
The only hope I see would for the nations to come together and embargo the north. Many of the largest and most profitable industries are completely dependent on exploiting the south, but every time some of the exploited countries have tried to stand up, the exploiters have either found one nation that is willing to betray their neighbors, or have invented some pretext for military intervention.
As Ben Franklin said, "if we don't hang together, we will surely hang separately".
Solidarity
I am an american residing in Mexico. I see corruption coming from US friendly money. How can further support AMLO? Thank you!â¤
South America has always been a black box to most North Americans. Many know that our Gov't abuses our neighbors to the south, yet we are kept in the dark, mostly. Useless MSM avoids the topic unless they want to spread more propaganda.
Thanks for the truth. â¤â¤
So I think is just a ilusion of Change! It is just on the surface ,but deep down still exploration and international Corporations greed Continue! The battle is not over just because those new Presidents.
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