In the 1970s, 80s and 90s, multinational corporations took over Latin America. Companies like Bechtel, Unilever, Phillip Morris, Danone and so on, dominated countries like Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil; not only economically, but politically. They achieved this level of power not only through neoliberal structural adjustment reforms, but also through military coups, state violence, and…
Author: Shahid Bolsen
Shahid Bolsen is the founder of the Middle Nation Movement.
Since even before the US invasion of Iraq, I was writing that th…
Since even before the US invasion of Iraq, I was writing that the US intended to turn the Middle East of today into the Central America of yesterday. What does that mean? Read the history of neoliberalism in Latin America, and the accompanying “Dirty Wars” that spread terror and chaos throughout the region to get…