[governance] On the death of neo-liberalism

[Carlos Afonso]

Just lurking in the lists lately, but I cannot help but comment on this
view. We are going through a putsch in Brazil by a powerful right-wing
coalition (big media, judiciary including the supreme court, right-wing
parties dominating congress) which has already succeeded in suspending
the current president (Mrs Rousseff) and is hastily carrying out a fully
neoliberal program, running against time (as Rousseff might return in
about 2 months) to cancel a large list of government-funded social
programs and giving priority to the demands of the private sector --
including a massive privatization of key state companies and the opening
of strategic resources of pre-salt oil deposits to foreign companies. It
is basically as if Brazil had suddenly signed the TPP while not even
being in the Pacific...

If neoliberalism is dead, it is elsewhere, not here.

fraternal regards

--c.a.

On 31/05/2016 21:59, Michael Gurstein wrote:
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