Perez Esquivel: Latin America's Right Turn Will Trigger Social Conflicts
ASUNCION, Nov 16 (BERNAMA-NNN-EFE)-- The recent turn to the right in Latin American politics will trigger serious social conflicts and marginalize large sectors of the population, the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Argentina's Adolfo Perez Esquivel, told EFE.
The human rights activist, who is taking part in various social forums in Paraguay this week, said in an interview that Latin America was currently "backtracking on social policies while affirming neoliberalism (dogmatic free-market policies)."
He said the return of neoliberalism and the current crisis of representative democracy were the result of "veiled coups" in recent years, referring to the removal of office via congressional proceedings of three leftist heads of states: Dilma Rousseff in Brazil this year, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo in 2012 and Honduras' Manuel Zelaya in 2009.
"They have no legitimacy. They're veiled coups, which now don't require the armed forces" but the complicity of politicians, the private sector and the judiciary, according to Perez Esquivel, who said an attempted legislative coup could be in the works against Venezuela's leftist head of state, Nicolas Maduro.
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