IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
Ecuador’s Union for Hope seeks to turn back the neoliberal tide
The fight for free and fair elections in Ecuador is key to the battle for social progress, writes LEE BROWN
A youth balances on the railing of a popular site to overlook Quito, Ecuador
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EVER since the violent birth of neoliberalism in the 1973 coup in Chile, its Latin American cheerleaders have pushed for a minimal role for the state in the economy but an active one for it in repressing those opposed to free-market extremism.
Ecuador in recent years has been a clear example of this approach. But a new coalition, the Union for Hope, which announced its Presidential candidates this week, is seeking not only to resist this neo-liberal offensive but to restore the social progress and vibrant democracy that made Latin America a beacon for the global left at the turn of the century.
Ecuador had one of the most successful governments in that progressive wave. Under President Rafael Correa, poverty fell by a third, Ecuador achieved the region’s greatest reduction in inequality, strong economic growth, huge investments in healthcare and education alongside radical tax justice and debt cancellation polices.
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