LATIN AMERICA: Popular alternatives to neoliberalism on the rise.

<a href=www.lapress.org>LatinAmericaPres.org Defining times  Armando Chávez.  Apr 24, 2003

Following a decade of neoliberal policy in Latin America, grassroots movements dedicated to fighting unemployment, hunger, poverty and the business avidity of transnational economic groups, have emerged across the region.

Rooted in Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina and Uruguay, and backed by figures such as Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, these movements have succeeded in arousing public interest in who they are and what they represent.