The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.
Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.
Some people might hate someone who is successful, but in Peru, they love it! It makes them feel they can be successful, too. That's a good state of mind for a country that wants to come out of poverty.
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.
Honduras in 2009 and Paraguay in 2012 were low-hanging fruit, small countries with outsized oligarchies, where mild reformers were easily dispatched.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.