Ana C. Carvalhaes

Rebellions, insurrections and political polarization in South America

Since the beginning of the century, South America has been the scene of a series of struggles, multitudinous demonstrations, popular estallidos (riots), election of reformist governments born out of these struggles and a lot of political polarization – because neo-extractivism, predation of nature, social breakdown, inequality, daily violence, militarization and political crises are growing here, which also feed far right alternatives: Uribismo in Colombia, Bolsonaro and his fanatics in Brazil, Kast and Pinochetistas in Chile, the Bolivian and Guatemalan coup right-wingers, the squalid right in Venezuela, and now Milei in Argentina. We live in a macro-region of extremely high lethal violence of all kinds, with growing socio-economic, racial and gender inequality.