ADDED 11/30/2018
FROM | BrasilWire
BY Joana Salém Vasconcelos and Rejane Carolina Hoeveler
The Neoliberal model implemented in Chile after the 1973 Military Coup gives us hints as to what will happen in Brazil under a future Jair Bolsonaro Government. The resemblance is no mere coincidence. Still shocked by the electoral results in Brazil, many Brazilians are asking how an avalanche of votes for Jair Bolsonaro and General […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 04/17/2018 | NACLA.org
BY J. Patrice McSherry
How Sebastián Piñera’s right-wing government is undermining democratic institutions Sebastián Piñera, a conservative billionaire, assumed the presidency of Chile for the second time on March 11 after an election in which abstention was the biggest winner. In only a few weeks he and right-wing allies engineered changes to key reforms enacted by previous socialist president […]
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