Latin America: Behind the Turmoil Revolution #033, February 5,
2006, posted at revcom.us From peasant uprisings to urban
demonstrations, a storm of protests is brewing in Latin America.
People are resisting the U.S. imposed neoliberal policies that
have wreaked havoc in these countries and sunk them into even
deeper poverty. They are seeking a way out. The discontent and
fury was evident in the November 2005 protests in Mar del Plata,
Argentina, against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas
(FTAA), and in several other countries at the same time. It was
also evident in the mass movements that have ousted governments
in Bolivia and Ecuador, and elected candidates that speak out
against some of these imperialist measures. The mass upheaval is
in response to the failure of the neoliberal imperialist
policies advocated by the United States, as well as Washington-
dominated institutions such as the IMF (International Monetary
Fund) and the World Bank which have led to the worst long-term
economic failure in mode