The Latin American Politics of Neoliberal Authoritarianism

Petras, James; Veltmeyer, Henry

doi:10.4324/9780367854379-9

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“…This transition aligns with recent scholarship on Latin American extractive development (Petras and Veltmeyer, 2016;Robinson, 2010). The Pink Tide swept in progressive governments that challenged neoliberalism's hegemonic sway in the region but not extractivism (Farthing and Fabricant, 2018;Silva, 2016).…”

Section: Disaster Extractivism and Shock Therapysupporting

confidence: 82%

Disaster Extractivism: Latin America’s Extractive Shock Therapy in the Age of COVID-19

Artiga-Purcell,

Chiasson-LeBel,

Leiva

et al. 2023

Latin American Perspectives

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Latin America faces a twin crisis. The spread of COVID-19 has become a health catastrophe and sent regional economies into recession, while governments’ increasing reliance on extractive development as a health and economic “cure” has compounded existing socio-environmental conflicts across the continent. An emergent “extractive savior” discourse aligns with political economic interests that have instrumentalized the pandemic to propel a new strain of disaster capitalism—disaster extractivism. Any socio-environmentally just response to COVID-19 must eschew the extractivist logic that underlies the pandemic and mainstream responses to it. América Latina enfrenta una doble crisis. La propagación de COVID-19 se ha convertido en una catástrofe sanitaria y ha llevado a las economías regionales a la recesión, mientras que la creciente dependencia de los gobiernos del desarrollo extractivo como una "cura" sanitaria y económica ha agravado los conflictos socioambientales existentes en todo el continente. Un discurso emergente de "salvación extractiva" se alinea con los intereses económicos políticos que han instrumentalizado la pandemia para impulsar una nueva cepa del capitalismo desastroso: el extractivismo desastroso. Cualquier respuesta socioambientalmente justa al COVID-19 debe evitar la lógica extractivista que subyace a la pandemia y las respuestas generales a esta.

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Section: Disaster Extractivism and Shock Therapysupporting

confidence: 82%