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Le ft Handed Left-Wing Politics in Latin America

Leftism in South America

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Left Handed

Left-Wing Politics in Latin America

Introduction

Left-Wing Politics

A position that accepts or supports SOCIAL EQUALITY• Often in opposition to social hierarchy and social

ineqauality

Revolves around the Concern for the following:• The Disadvantage relative to others• And the unjustified inequalities that needs to be

abolished

Beginnings

French Parliament

Monarchy

Left

&

Right

Generally opposed the

Monarchy and Supported the

revolution

Supported the Old RegimeTraditional in keeping the

King

French Revolution (1789-1799)

Over the Course of time

Left Transformed

Socialism, Communism

and Anarchism

Civil rights movements,

Anti-War, Environment

French Revolution

Twentieth Century

The Two-Party System• Left and Right now used as

labels for two different parties

• The extension of “Left-wing” to refer to whole Parties

• Democratic party in the US• Labour Party in the UK

Pink Tide or Turn to the Left

The increasing influence of Left-wing politics in

Latin America in the 21st Century

Pink Tide Nations

• Nation: President• Cuba: Raul Castro• Venezuela: Nicolas

Maduro• Chile: Michelle Bachelet• Brazil: Dilma Rouseff• Argentina: Cristina

Fernandez de Kirchner• Dominican Rep.: Danilo

Medina• Uruguay: Jose Mujica• Bolivia: Evo Morales• Honduras: Manuel

Zelaya• Nicaragua: Daniel

Ortega• Ecuador: Rafael Correa• Paraguay: Fernando

Lugo• El Salvador: Mauricio

Funes• Peru: Ollanta Humala

14 Nations that are Leftist

Prominent Left-Wing Nations

Cuba

ChileVenezuela

Cuba• Based on the 1992

constitution and the ideas of JOSE MARTI

• Lead the charge for Social reformation, through Agrarian reforms and Health reforms

• One of the world’s four remaining socialist states espousing communism

• The other 3 being: China, Laos and Vietnam

• Cuban Economy adheres to Socialist Principles

• Planned Economy• On 1965 under Fidel

Castro; the nation revived the Communist Party of Cuba

• During its development in the 1990’s it was supported by other socialist nations such as China, Venezuela and Bolivia

Venezuela

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

• Major Figure: Hugo Chavez

Under his Bolivarian Revolution Venezuela created a new Constitution• The party formulated the following policies:• Redistribution of wealth, land reform, and

democratization of economic activity

• Republic of Chile

• South America’s most stable and prosperous nations

• Democracy returned after the fall of the military government of Augusto Pinochet

Chile

• Chile achieved economic success through economic liberalization and privatization combined with social reforms

• 210% increase in social spending at low income sectors

• The Miracle of Chile