Schlagwort: Latin America
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Tony Saunois: Latin America’s Tequila Hangover
[Militant International Review, No 60, February-March 1995, p. 26-28] As the devastating debt crisis of the 1980s receded, Latin America once again showed signs of economic growth – there was even talk of Latin America joining the ‚first world‘ of advanced countries. But the Mexican financial crash has revealed how brittle these claims were. Tony…
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Alan Woods: Latin America on the brink
[Militant International Review, No. 24, November 1983, p. 12-26] The ending of the exceptional period of upswing in the world economy from 1950 to 1975, and the beginning of a new period of organic capitalist crisis, has opened up an entirely different situation on a world scale, a fundamental feature of which is the phenomenon…
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Peter Taaffe: The church and the struggle for liberation
(Militant No. 449, 30 March 1979, p. 6) The second of three articles In last week’s ‘Militant’, Peter Taaffe analysed the role of Islam in the Iranian revolution. In the second article he looks at developments within the Catholic Church in Latin America over the past two decades. The ‘Economist’ recently pointed out that “Since…