{"id":118066,"date":"2018-09-10T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=118066"},"modified":"2018-09-07T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:29:05","slug":"latin-america-rightwing-interlude-and-the-death-rattle-of-neoliberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/09\/latin-america-rightwing-interlude-and-the-death-rattle-of-neoliberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin America: Rightwing Interlude and the Death Rattle of Neoliberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>5 Sep 2018 &#8211; <em>Business writers, neo-liberal economists and politicians in North America and the EU heralded Latin America\u2019s embrace of a \u2018new wave of free markets and free elections\u2019. Beginning in 2015 they predicted a new era of growth, stability and good government free of corruption and run by technocratic policy-makers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By early 2018 the entire neo-liberal edifice was crumbling, the promises and predictions of a neoliberal success story were forgotten. The \u2018naysayers\u2019 were in ascendancy.<\/p>\n<p>This paper will discuss the recent rise of a so-called \u2018neo-liberal wave\u2019 or right turn and the regimes directing it.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasLatinAmericaRightwinInterlude.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>___________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-80568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/james-petras-e1497793376538.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/latin-america-rightwing-interlude-and-the\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras.lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Sep 2018 &#8211; Beginning in 2015, business writers, neo-liberal economists and politicians in North America and the EU heralded Latin America\u2019s embrace of a \u2018new wave of free markets and free elections\u2019. By early 2018 the entire neo-liberal edifice was crumbling, the promises and predictions of a neoliberal success story were forgotten. This paper will discuss the recent rise of a so-called \u2018neo-liberal wave\u2019 or right turn and the regimes directing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":80568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}