Title: Socialism is alive and kicking in South America | Sounds and Colours
Headings: Socialism is alive and kicking in South America
Socialism is alive and kicking in South America
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Content: All of these leaders have in common that not only do they have a socialist and catholic background – for which the creation of a bond between them was smooth and solid – but also their political impoliteness. Some argue that the positive side of the rise of this Marxist trend and such determined leaders is that these developing countries have confronted the States to claim profit for their national products, more specifically the nationalisation of their oil companies, the most valued of their natural resources. The negative side is the argument that goes on about the lack of freedom; the fact that in history, socialism has tended to prove itself impossible to last without becoming dictatorial and oppressive in some way. The reason why it is still successful in South America is possibly the result of several circumstances. It is argued that totalitarian regimes where certain goods are scarce may be more bearable in benign climatic conditions, rather than in places like Russia where poverty takes a death toll every winter. On the other hand its position in the political map of the world situate all these countries right below the United States, and these regimes might also be a way of confronting severe capitalist policies that affect them first hand. Some of these governments, see the case of Cuba, were born in conditions directly provoked by the United States, which have appointed a few leaders for South American countries throughout the 20th century, starting armed conflicts in order to install or maintain friendly governments to their administrations in the continent. The most obvious of the reasons, which emerges straight from the situation created by the intrusion of the States, is the South American population’s wish to manage their own natural and economic resources and to make the profits obtained be to their own benefit. However, the main problem that currently derives from socialism in South America is that some of the doctrine’s principles seem to have inevitably gone out of date.