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ABSTRACT DUE TO MAY 1, 2019
FULL ARTICLE DUE TO DECEMBER 10, 2019
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Resistance movements to economic measures and militaristic policies have been increasing in Latin America and the Caribbean since the 1960s. Indigenous and peasant movements are advancing against the exploitation of their territories by mining, oil and other companies, as well as movements of migrants, women and other popular rural and urban sectors. The Treaty signed (1993) and put into effect (1994) between the United States, Canada and Mexico established the model of asymmetric integration subordinated to transnational capital, which served as a model for the negotiations of others such as the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), proposed in December 1994, and bilateral and multilateral treaties throughout the continent. These treaties have a regional security component that involves the militarized part of them to ensure their functioning, through the control of borders and other strategic spaces, for their resources, the criminalization of social protest and even counterinsurgency. And although the FTAA was defeated in its commercial axis by the social mobilizations carried out throughout the continent, and the opposition of several countries, led mainly by Brazil, to the subsidy policies of the United States for its own agricultural production, the regional security axis has constantly advanced. In addition, some governments of South American countries - Chávez in Venezuela, Kirchner in Argentina, Lula in Brazil, Duarte in Paraguay - began to promote a Latin American integration process that would strengthen the region's negotiating capacity before the FTAA, or perhaps as an alternative to it. This led to the strengthening of MERCOSUR and the creation of the South American Community of Nations first and UNASUR later, as well as Hugo Chávez's project to promote the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America/People's Trade Treaty (ALBA/TCP).
topics
Latin American guerrillas
Dictatorship in Latin America
Social movement in Latin America (economical, ecological, political, social)
Alternative movements in Latin America
Anti-globalization movements in Latin America
Social movements in the following country borders: México-United States; México-Guatemala; Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador; Nicaragua and Panamá; Costa Rica – Nicaragua; Brazil-Paraguay-Argentina
Neoliberalism and regional relations
Social movements in the government of Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales and Lula da Silva.
Challenging the US in Latin America: ALCA vs. ALBA
US-Latin America Relations in the Age of Neoliberalism
Latin American "Tercermundismo"
the Contadora Group
The Pink Tide as form of resistance and alternative?
EZLN
Sendero Luminoso
Central American guerrilas and social movements
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