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Article: Latin America's Labor Movement Tries to Retool
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- The Washington Post
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- May 17, 1996
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Latin America's labor movement, an often noisy but powerless
spectator in the age of economic transformation, is finally
adjusting to the changing times and beginning to reassert itself in
a radically altered landscape.
The extent of this reformation varies depending on the
country, but some labor leaders in the region predict the
reemergence of an activist labor movement, one more focused on
worker rights and less concerned with the ideological arguments that
characterized it in the past.
The new posture is a radical shift for labor leaders, many of
whom were schooled in communist orthodoxy and -- along with the rest
of the left in Latin America -- suffered a severe identity ...