Hi John,
As we approach a vital election in Brazil, I'm excited to be hosting three guest speakers from Latin American social movements to discuss prospects and challenges for recently-elected progressive governments in the continent.
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WEBINAR: Is there a new ‘red-green’ tide in Latin America?
- When: 6.30pm, Wednesday 5 October
- Where: Online, via Zoom
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Earlier this year, Gabriel Boric became president of Chile, having been elected on a green left platform and vowing to ‘fight the privileges of the few’. His election was preceded by the return to power of leftists in Bolivia, Peru and Honduras, and followed by the election of Colombia’s first ever leftwing president, Gustavo Petro, and vice president Francia Márquez, an Afro-Colombian environmental activist.
Speakers:
- Cassia Bechara, Landless Workers’ Movement, Brazil
- Yasna Tapia, Commons Party, Chile
- Tatiana Garavito, Colombian climate justice organiser
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Twenty years ago Latin America saw a ‘pink tide’ of leftist governments elected. Are we seeing a similar political shift now? How are these elections related to the growing feminist movement in the continent, to Indigenous movements, and to the struggles against mining and ‘extractivism’? What are the prospects of Colombia’s President Petro moving the country away from fossil fuels as he promised? What kind of a setback is it that Chileans rejected a new progressive constitution in a plebiscite on 4 September? And if Lula makes a comeback in Brazil in October, can Latin America once again become a global beacon of hope for fundamental change?
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I hope you can join me on 5 October.
James O'Nions
Head of activism at Global Justice Now
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