Thursday, April 16, 2015

telesur — Latin America: From US Corporate Hegemony to Regional Autonomy

The U.S. and UN sought to make dangerous interventions at the Summit of the Americas, in support of a neo-liberal economic agenda. These interventions were swiftly challenged by latin leaders promoting increased regional autonomy.…
Business innovation has failed to make social improvements comparable to Venezuela’s in other countries throughout our globalized world. Yet, business innovation is still deemed as the solution to our social, economic and environmental woes.….
Countries such as Venezuela and Ecuador prove that alternatives to relying on business to address social, economic and climate disasters exist. They prove that big business cause the social, economic and climate disasters, and that relying on them to solve the problems they create simply does not make sense. Instead of touting the underlying assumptions of neoliberalism and regional empire, perhaps Ki-moon, Obama and others should take a closer look at the substantive social transformations occurring in many Latin American countries and that have cleared the path for further regional autonomy and alternative economics.
telesur
Latin America: From US Corporate Hegemony to Regional Autonomy

1 comment:

Matt Franko said...

Venezuela (OPEC member... I thought monopoly rents were "bad"??????) has simply been riding the price of oil...

Now oil is down $50 and they cant get toilet paper....