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</p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/unrest-in-latin-america-makes-authoritarianism-look-more-appealing-to-some-127774"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://theconversation.com/unrest-in-latin-america-makes-authoritarianism-look-more-appealing-to-some-127774</font></a></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx grafs</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Months of sustained, sometimes violent anti-government protest in South America may have increased popular support for authoritarianism.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s the startling finding of a still-unpublished study I conducted using data from the AmericasBarometer, a survey undertaken every two years in Latin American countries.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although the massive demonstrations that have shaken Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Paraguay since late 2018 have distinct origins and impacts – from transportation prices to election fraud – there are some commonalities.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All are an expression of deep frustration with the political status quo, and many demonstrators cite corruption, poverty and economic inequality as overlooked issues facing their nation.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some South Americans, particularly young people and leftists, see these mass protest movements as positive. In Chile, 80% of people surveyed in October 2019 said they approved of demonstrators’ actions. In more conservative Colombia, 34% did.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But the protests have also been polarizing</b>. For months, marches have disrupted people’s day-to-day activities and turned capital cities into conflict zones, creating some resentment – even fear that the social order is unraveling.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Q<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">uito, Ecuador—October 8, 2019</span></span> – Indigenous Peoples across Ecuador have mobilized against the central government’s neoliberal policies and extractive practices, as have workers unions, student unions and a diverse group of civil society. Our civil disobedience has included marches, road blocks, and the detention of military and police personnel accused of violence and aggression within Indigenous territories. Currently, over 20,000 Indigenous Peoples from the Andes to the Amazon are marching to the capital city of Quito in indefinite protest.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Our movement aims to reverse the Ecuadorian government’s closed-door agreement with the International Monetary Fund and protect our territories from the social, economic and environmental fallout of the accelerated extractive agenda that will follow</span>. This is not simply about gasoline subsidies. The austerity measures of President Lenin Moreno will widen inequality and marginalization of Indigenous Peoples. Paired with the recent announcement of Ecuador to leave OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), they are clear indicators that the government will ramp up devastating oil, mining and hydroelectric projects in Indigenous territories. For centuries we have protected our lands in the mountains and the Amazon, and we will not allow Indigenous Peoples, indigenous territories and our global climate to pay the cost for the government’s mounting debt to China and international lenders.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These political decisions and policies were made in the capital without our consent or input, yet they affect our rights and our ability to survive. We have shown throughout Ecuador’s history that Indigenous Peoples have the power to shut down the country when our rights are put at risk and power is abused. Once again, we are putting our bodies and our lives on the line to protect our families, rights, cultures and territories, this time from the central government’s neoliberal assault.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We denounce the campaigns of misinformation promoted by the central government and by both national and international media outlets. Opportunists, both politicians and looters, are attempting to co-opt the Indigenous movement and distort our message. This inflames violence and division. We repudiate the violence, vandalism and looting by external actors who are not affiliated with our movement or goals. The government must reverse its declaration of a State of Emergency, which facilitates widespread police and military violence, arbitrary detentions and the suspension of fundamental rights.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>We call on the Ecuadorian government to repeal the recently announced austerity measures, cancel the agreement with the International Monetary Fund and respect Indigenous Peoples’ decision to keep our territories free of extractive industries.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read CONAIE and CONFENIAE’s statement in Spanish <a href="https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/declaratoria-de-agenda-de-lucha-de-organizaciones-pueblos-nacionalidades-y-comunidades" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">here.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-size: small; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2.2rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">For further information and interviews please contact via WhatsApp:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Andrés Tapía, CONFENIAE Communications, +593 98 446 5175<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Apawki Castro, CONAIE Communications, +593 98 385 6491<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jaime Vargas, President of CONAIE, +593 96 092 1242<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Marlon Vargas, President of CONFENIAE, +593 98 903 4035</font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Inequality and development</div><div><b>Wealth gap widening for more than 70% of global population, researchers find</b></div><div>Policymakers urged to act on climate and bridge digital divide as study shows soaring inequality is affecting millions</div><div>
</div><div>Global development is supported by</div><div>About this content</div><div>Sam Phan</div><div>
</div><div>Wed 22 Jan 2020 07.46 EST</div><div>
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</span></div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Social and economic disparities have soared even in countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, where inequality had been falling in recent decades,</span> found the World Social Report.</b></div><div>
</div><div>If nothing is done to address the problem, the prosperity and development of millions of people could be damaged.</div><div>
</div><div>“If we don’t act now, the entrenched inequalities that are already there will worsen,” said Elliott Harris, chief economist and assistant secretary general for economic development in the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.</div><div>
</div><div>But he added: “What is changing now is that there is a greater awareness that this inequality is having consequences and [causing] social upheavals. It’s something we’ve known for some time, but it hasn’t gotten the recognition.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>The report said that while international inequality has declined in relative terms, the absolute gap between the average incomes of people living in high- and low-income countries has doubled since 1990.</b></div><div>
</div><div>Rising inequalities are benefiting the wealthiest. Top income tax rates have fallen in all countries, which have made tax systems less progressive. In wealthier countries, the top income-tax rates have dropped from 66% in 1981 to 43% in 2018.</div><div>
</div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The income gap has been exacerbated by the climate crisis. The report estimates that the gap between the richest and poorest 10% of the global population is 25% larger than it would be in a world without global warming.</b></div><div>
</div><div>The UN said better use of technology, tackling the climate crisis and improved management of migration and urbanisation could help reduce the inequalities, a target of the UN global goals.</div><div>
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</div><div>Climate, inequality, hunger: which global problems would you fix first?</div><div> Read more</div><div>Almost 87% of people living in wealthy countries have internet access compared with 19% in the least developed countries, creating a digital divide that will increasingly marginalise low-skilled workers, said the report.</div><div>
</div><div><b>It added that the impact of the climate crisis threatened to reverse progress on reducing inequality, as the communities most affected by the impact of global heating will find it increasingly hard to escape poverty.</b></div><div>
</div><div>A transition towards greener economies could help combat inequality, said the researchers. Although millions of lower-skilled jobs in carbon-intensive industries will be lost, carefully designed adaptation strategies could create 24m new jobs, they predicted.</div><div>
</div><div>Meanwhile, better urban planning and city management could improve the lives of more than 1 billion people who currently live in slums, often with little access to decent sanitation, clean water or energy.</div><div>
</div><div>Better migration policies and lower transaction costs for family remittances would also allow millions of people to pursue better opportunities and improve their lives, added the report.</div><div>
</div><div>“It is difficult to address inequality, but it can be successfully reduced. We need to agree on the need and the policy, and then address it,” said Harris.</div><div>
</div><div>“This is not [our] destiny. If we act now through policy, we can deliver better outcomes.”</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://theconversation.com/countries-to-watch-in-2020-from-chile-to-afghanistan-5-essential-reads-129160">https://theconversation.com/countries-to-watch-in-2020-from-chile-to-afghanistan-5-essential-reads-129160</a></div><div>
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There’s no better place to start than with the pensions Pinochet sold to private, profit-seeking management companies during his dictatorship.</font></p><p class="hm-dgsummary hm-sd-sysummary hm-sd-b-sysummary" style="margin: 2em 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Owing to its mix of macroeconomic stability, sustained growth, and diminishing levels of poverty, Chile was, until recently, considered a success story of neoliberal orthodoxy. <b>Last month’s subway fare hike changed all that, unleashing a <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/chile-protests-frente-amplio-neoliberalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">massive wave</a> <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/neoliberalism-chile-uprising-austerity-protests-pinera" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">of civil disobedience</a> <a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/chile-protests-pinochet-constitution-neoliberalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">and rebellion</a></b>.</font></p><p class="hm-dgsummary hm-sd-sysummary hm-sd-b-sysummary" style="margin: 2em 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><section class="po-cnintro po-wpintro" id="ch-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protests <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2019/11/victor-jara-chile-protests-songs-salvador-allende" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">erupted</a> in major cities across the country, including an unprecedented mass rally of more than a million people in Santiago. Since then, more than forty metro stations have been destroyed, several supermarkets burned or looted, and many other buildings ravaged, including the corporate headquarters of Santiago’s main electricity company.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The government’s strong-arm response has so far resulted in seven thousand arrests, thousands of injured, and twenty-five dead. But weeks after the initial flare-up, Chileans are still on the streets. Their rage can’t easily be quashed, and their concerns will need to be addressed before Chile returns to normal.</font></p></section><section class="po-cnsection po-wpsection" id="ch-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-top: 4em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="po-cnsubhead po-wpsubhead" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pinochet’s Pension Scheme</font></h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rafael Herrera is a seventy-five-year-old retiree. According to <em style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-domingo/noticia/las-voces-la-rabia-piden-los-marchantes/886153/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">La Tercera</a></em>, he receives a monthly pension of 140,000 pesos (approximately $175) and spends 180,000 pesos (approximately $225) paying off medical debts accrued after a car accident. To cover the difference (and his monthly living costs), he depends on what sporadic work he can find — despite his back problems — and support from his son. When asked why he went out on the streets and joined the protests, he explained his reasons as follows:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 2em 0px; padding: 0px 2em; border-left: 1px solid;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I know an eighty-year-old old man in a wheelchair, and his pension is miserable. He says that if he had a gun, he would kill someone out of pure rage. I wouldn’t do that, but my anger is the same. To be living halfway. It just won’t do anymore.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Herrera’s story is the story of an entire generation of Chileans who saw their plans of a dignified old-age crash against the reality of Chile’s dismal pension provisions.</b> In 1980, when Herrera and his generation were in their thirties, the minister of work and social welfare, José Piñera (brother of the current president, Sebastián Piñera) engineered a reform to replace the existing pay-as-you-go collective pension schemes, removing all elements of solidarity and social security. In this new scheme, each worker would contribute 10 percent of their wages, to be claimed upon retirement. Private companies, the so-called Pension Funds Administrators (AFP), would invest the money and oversee its administration (for profit).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; box-sizing: border-box; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.7em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was a way to bring market logic into the pension system and inject a massive tranche of fresh resources into capital markets. As has recently come to light with the release of the dictatorship’s secret minutes, <a href="http://www.cedocmuseodelamemoria.cl/catalogo/sesiones_junta/files/assets/basic-html/page160.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Pinochet’s reaction</a> was at once encouraging and somewhat skeptical:...</font></p></section></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div>