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Article: Hugo Chávez spearheads the South American Revolution
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- CCPA Monitor
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Jul/Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. MARIA PAEZ VICTOR:
While European and North American governments wallow in right-wing militarism, Latin American states are leading the world in implementing progressive social change. They are doing this not just within countries, but also on a continental level now that 10 left-wing Latin American governments are in power: in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Chile, and Cuba.
On May 23, at a summit in Brasilia, Brazil, 12 South American countries formally constituted the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), a regional integration initiative which includes a parliament, a presidential forum and a secretariat. The ...