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		<title>Turkey and Latin America: Reaction and Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Both Turkey and Latin America have passed form bourgeois-national-statist development models beginning during the 1930’s and ending approximately in the later half of the 20th century.  Both Turkey and most countries of Latin America [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1708</link>
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		<title>Prologue: New book on Polo Democrático, Ecuador</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In the recent period, popular social mobilization of urban and rural popular classes (workers, peasants, Indians, public employees, urban barrio militants, teachers and street venders) have succeeded in overthrowing neo-liberal presidents, discrediting a corrupt and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1712</link>
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		<title>The Great Financial Crisis or Who’s Got a Turd in his Briefcase?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The rating agencies, who are paid by the sellers, all gave top billing (AA, AAA) to these hybrid securities, mortgages and junk bonds, encouraging investment advisers to push them on to risk-averse client looking for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1707</link>
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		<title>Rethinking the Development of Latin America and the Caribbean for the 21st Century</title>
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	Forms of primitive accumulation, characterized by forcible seizure of urban and rural land and massive population displacement by the state and in some cases by paramilitary elites have been re-introduced.
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		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1706</link>
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		<title>Cuba: Continuing Revolution and Contemporary Contradictions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Cuba was able to withstand the fallout from the collapse of the USSR, the Eastern European collectivist regimes, China and Indo-China’s transit to capitalism and to construct a new development model.
	As many scholars and political [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1705</link>
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