The article may be bordering on barking, may promote the earth-shattering linking together of a few nutty left-wing websites and may talk endlessly about the supposed strategies of elites but in the end - like much of modern left-wing cant - it's just advocating protectionism and autarky.
Across Latin America, various novel and interesting forms of socialism have been emerging and evolving for some time, since an earlier generation experienced the miseries resulting from the imposition of the Washington Consensus.
It seems the solution to world poverty, the democratic deficit and the plight of the oppressed working-class is good old fashioned, Latin, anti-yankeee-ism!
I suppose I won't help them to say that it's free trade that makes us richer - all of us everywhere. An anti-trade strategy will just make us poorer - all of us everywhere (bar the cosy monopolists who get the nod from powerful governments).
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