1. Anti-capitalism
and
anti-globalisation
Movements in Latin America

3. Brazil, June 2013

4. History
Begining of capitalism, roots of
globalisation and emergence of
„Latin” America
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European influence
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Free but not entirely
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American influence
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Internal conflicts
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6. Anti-imeprialism in Latin America and
leftists influence:
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Communism and anti-capitalism
1953-1959 – Cuban Revolution
1960-1996 – Guatemalan Civil War
1961-1990 – Nicaraguan Revolution
1964 – war in Columbia (FARC, ELN)
(1969)1975-198 – Dirty War in Argentina
1979-1992 – Salvadoran Civil War
1980 – war in Peru (Shining Path)

7. Economic issues
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Poverty
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Social differences
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Foreign capital
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neoliberalism

8. Anti-capitalism today
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Bolivarian Revolution – led by late Venezuelan
president Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth
Republic Movement, joined the United Socialist
Party of Venezuela in 2007.
Movement for Socialism-Political Instrument for
the Sovereignty of the Peoples – Bolivian political
movement led by Evo Morales, founded in 1998.
Its followers are known as masistas.

9. Brazil – The Landless Movement
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a social movement in Brazil, regarded as one of
the biggest in Latin America with an estimated
informal 1.5 million membership.
According to the MST, its aims are:
1.fight for access to the land for poor workers in
general (the most important)
2. activism around social issues impinging on the
achievement of land possession, such as
unequal income distribution, racism, sexism,
and media monopolies.

10. Anti-globalisation protests in Latin
America
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February 1 2002, New York City, USA / Porto
Alegre, Brazil, World Economic Forum /
World Social Forum
September 14, 2003 – Cancún, Mexico – Fifth
Ministerial of the WTO collapses
May 28, 2004 – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Summit
of Heads of State and Governments from Latin
America, the Caribbean and the European
Union
November 19, 2004 – November 23, 2004,
Santiago, Chile, Protests against President

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March 9, 2007 – Clashes in Sao Paulo, Brazil
as protests greet the start of President Bush's
six-day tour of Latin America.
March 12, 2007 – Anti-Bush protests in
Bogotá, Colombia.
March 14, 2007 – Clashes in Mexico City, the
last stop on Bush's Latin America tour.

12. World Social Forum
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an annual meeting of civil society organizations, first
held in Brazil, which offers a self-conscious effort to
develop an alternative future through the championing
of counter-hegemonic globalization.
„From the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994) to the
Battle in Seattle (1999) to the creation of the World
Social Forum in Porto Alegre (2001)... Countersummits, global campaigns and social forums have
been crucial spaces to articulate local struggles, share
experiences and analyses, develop expertise, and
build concrete forms of international solidarity among
progressive movements for social, economic and
ecological justice”.

13. Use of New Media by social movements at
present time is very differential. Some of them
have vell developed websites like the Landless
Movement but most of them are not this well
organized. Some of the websites simply are no
longer active. Of course there is also a movement
that uses Interent in an astonishing way –
Zapatistas