ARCHIVE: How US Imperialism in Latin America Has Created Poverty & Violence (Prof. Aviva Chomsky)

FIRST AIRED: 24/05/2021. We speak to Prof. Aviva Chomsky, author of ‘Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration’ and the daughter of Noam Chomsky. She discusses the US’ support for right wing governments in Latin America which followed Washington imposed neoliberalism and the foreign investment model of economic extractivism, how Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela provided a different path for Latin American nations to avoid neoliberalism imposed by the US, IMF and World Bank, the US demand that Latin American policies must be favourable for US corporations which in turn hurts the working classes of Latin America, the US government’s to destroy left wing politics within trade unions in the United States, Latin America and around the world, the US-backed overthrow of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in 2009, why Biden’s foreign policy to Latin America will be unlikely to diverge from past US Presidents and much more!

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