Posted on 05/12/2017 11:04:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Despite the success of socialist governments over the past two decades, conference attendees agreed that grave inequality continues to plague the region.
Today's roundtable discussions focused on how to counter the oligarchs and imperialism who accompany the rise of far-right wing politicians. Cuban researchers emphasized how the academy can be used in a regional context to resist these anti-democratic forces.
Despite the success of revolutionary and anti-neoliberal governments in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades, conference attendees agreed that the region continues to be plagued by grave inequality. More than 175 million people remain in abject poverty in the region.
Isabel Allende, director of ISRI, stated that due to the complexities facing the subcontinent, the Cuban academy must continue to take a pro-active stance in its analysis of the social atmosphere.
She stressed that people of the region must contribute with their weapons, which are those of peace, to achieve unification of the forces of progress and integration to deal with hegemonic domination and threats against revolutionary processes.
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Really? Where? Venezuela...Cuba...Haiti? The real question is the counterfactual: Where would they be today had they gone with a free market system? Need proof? Look at Chile under Allende and look where it is today.
“I find it a challenge, what with all the power shortages, to get my Dom Perignon properly chilled.”
“Yes, I agree. And finding servants with enough strength left to carry the cases to the cooler is also a challenge.”
Obviously, these loons live in a fantasy world which we cannot visit without an ample supply of mind altering drugs!!!
We just don’t have the dineros to buy it and wonder what the gringos would take in trade for their magnificent toilet paper?
She stressed that people of the region must contribute with their weapons, which are those of peace, to achieve unification of the forces of progress and integration to deal with hegemonic domination and threats against revolutionary processes.
WOW, How much of and What kind of drugs do you have to take to say all that without actually saying anything at all?? Babble!!
Really? Where? Venezuela...Cuba...Haiti?
Oh come on, I saw Obama praise all three so did Sean Pennand Meathead. are you saying they are wrong??/ /s
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