The ongoing colonial violence of resource extraction in Latin America

Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/for-us-extractivism-is-lethal-the-ongoing-colonial-violence-of-resource-extraction-in-latin-america<br /><br />From the defeat of the coup government in Bolivia, the election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras, and the rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, to the historic election of Gustavo Petro in Colombia and the return of Lula in Brazil, left-leaning governments are changing the political landscape of Latin America. However, even more progressive parties and ruling coalitions have failed to rein in the violence of the resource extraction economy and the domineering power of international capital flowing through mining, drilling, and deforestation operations across the hemisphere. Indigenous and environmental activists from Ecuador to Bolivia say that today's extractivist economy perpetuates the violence of colonial domination, and warn that things are only going to get worse over the course of the 21st century. <br /><br />In the latest installment of The Marc Steiner Show's special collaborative series with the North American Congress on Latin America (<a href="https://nacla.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NACLA</a>), we speak with a panel of Indigenous leaders, environmental activists, and scholars about how extractivism has come to dominate the politics and economics of Latin America, and what forms the anti-extractivist resistance is taking at the local and international level.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/pumahuarmi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Patricia Gualinga</a> is an Indigenous Kichwa leader and lifelong defender of the Amazon rainforest in her community of Sarayaku, Ecuador. <br /><br />Pablo Poveda is a radical economist who works at the<a href="https://twitter.com/cedlabo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Center for Studies of Labor and Agrarian Development</a> (CEDLA), a non-profit think tank in La Paz, Bolivia.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.csusb.edu/profile/tvelasqu" target="_bl