How to resist the conservative shift in Latin America?

The voices of Latin American social movements It is a series of podcasts created and produced by CLACSO and by RedDeLaC, the “Network for the Study of the new right-wing movements in Latin America and the Caribbean: past and present”.

Chapter 1: How to resist the conservative shift in Latin America?

Javier Milei, Jair Bolsonaro, and Gustavo Petro are political leaders who are or have recently been in charge of the governments of Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. In recent years, Latin America has been experiencing a new shift to the right, which, through its rhetoric and practices, emphasizes the values ​​of individualism over community, hatred between social groups over unity and collective struggle, deregulation of the market and labor over social justice, and denialism over the fight to bring to light crimes against humanity perpetrated by the state.

This first episode of the Podcast The voices of Latin American social movements It focuses on the experiences and strategies of members of different groups regarding how to confront these new right-wing movements and the danger they pose to historically achieved social gains.

Three participants from Colombian, Venezuelan, and Argentinian social movements share their opinions: Javier Mauricio Ramírez, member of the “Fortaleza Leoparda Sur” Bar of Buaramanga, Colombia; Jesús Chucho García, an Afro-descendant activist, founding member of the Regional Afro-descendant Articulation of the Americas and the Caribbean and of the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations; and María Eugenia Marengo, journalist and activist of the Plurinational Dissident and Feminist Movement of Capilla del Monte-Córdoba.