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Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin
America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in
Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward
radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and
Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this
new, so-called Twenty-First-Century Socialism actually manifest
itself? What are we to make of the often fraught relationship
between the social movements and governments in these countries and
do, in fact, the latter even qualify as 'socialist' in reality?
These are the bold and critical questions that Latin America's
Turbulent Transitions explores. The authors provocatively argue
that although US hegemony in the region is on the wane, the
traditional socialist project is also declining and something new
is emerging. Going beyond simple conceptions of 'the left', the
book reveals the true underpinnings of this powerful,
transformative, and yet also complicated and contradictory process.
Over the past few years, something remarkable has occurred in Latin
America. For the first time since the Sandinista Revolution in
Nicaragua in the 1980s, people within the region have turned toward
radical left governments - specifically in Venezuela, Bolivia, and
Ecuador. Why has this profound shift taken place and how does this
new, so-called Twenty-First-Century Socialism actually manifest
itself? What are we to make of the often fraught relationship
between the social movements and governments in these countries and
do, in fact, the latter even qualify as 'socialist' in reality?
These are the bold and critical questions that Latin America's
Turbulent Transitions explores. The authors provocatively argue
that although US hegemony in the region is on the wane, the
traditional socialist project is also declining and something new
is emerging. Going beyond simple conceptions of 'the left', the
book reveals the true underpinnings of this powerful,
transformative, and yet also complicated and contradictory process.
George W. Bush has fundamentally changed America's place in the
world. In some neo-conservative circles the word 'empire' is back
in fashion, and a great republic that broke away from the British
empire is now supposed to be proud of its new imperial role. This
book explains how the neo-conservatives and the petro-military
complex have hijacked US foreign policy. It examines the price that
Americans will have to pay for this new era of unlimited US
military might -- a never ending fear of terrorism; mushrooming
defence and security spending; the erosion of civil liberties at
home and the deaths abroad of tens of thousands of civilians and
military combatants. At the heart of this disturbing and timely
book is the ultimate question. Previous empires have foundered on
the rock of imperial overstretch -- the costs of trying to run and
protect empires eventually outstripping the capacity and
willingness of the citizenry to pay for them. Is the US in danger
of going down that road? Who around George 'Dubya' Bush is pushing
him along that path?
This work tells the epic story of the arrest of General Augusto
Pinochet in London in October 1998, and the events surrounding it.
It begins with Pinochet's violent military coup against the
democratically elected government of Salvador Allende on September
11, 1973. It probes the sociopathic, paranoid and authoritarian
tendencies that led him to murder thousands of people in Chile
while authorizing acts of international terrorism in Argentina,
Italy and Washington D.C. In response to his brutal reign, a human
rights movement was forged that played a critical role in finally
ousting the dictator in 1990. But even out of office, his power was
such that he suppressed all efforts to prosecute him, until his
detention in London. The book describes the clash between the
politicians who sought to cover up and wash their hands of
Pinochet, and the judges, lawyers and human rights organizations.
And it discusses the implications of the affair for an
international regime of justice.
The Pinochet Affair is the epic story of the events that surrounded
the dramatic arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London in
October 1998. Beginning his narrative with the violent military
coup that Pinochet led on September 11, 1973, Roger Burbach
discusses what led the dictator to murder thousands of his own
people and to authorize acts of international terrorism in
Argentina, Italy and Washington D.C. He describes the global clash
that ultimately took place in Spain, Britain and Chile to bring him
to justice, and the impact the Pinochet affair has had around the
world as the global human rights community seeks to establish an
international regime of justice.
The book begins with an overview of globalization, showing how
wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a transnational
elite while ever increasing numbers of people are being
marginalised. Institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and
the International Monetary Fund are intent upon exercising a new
hegemony over individuals as the role of the traditional nation
state is transformed. At the centre of this power shift is a group
of high-tech robber barons who dominate the Information Age and
exploit the technologies of globalization for their own narrow
interests. The second part of the book explores the rise of the new
grass roots oppositional movements around the world. Manifest in
such diverse struggles as the uprising of the Zapatistas in Mexico
and the battle of Seattle against the World Trade Organisation,
this new postmodern politics is "de-centred" and has little
interest in the old ideologies that dominated much of the twentieth
century. The final section of the book contextualizes postmodern
politics by drawing on contemporary examples. The authors discuss
the demise of socialist and proto-socialist experiments in Chile,
Grenada, Nicaragua and Cuba and the emergence of postmodern
movements in Latin America. The final two chapters take a specific
look at the Zapatista movement and its significance for
revolutionary struggles around the world.
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