Haben Chavez und Morales doch recht?
“In some ways, Latin America has never had it better,” former Clinton administration official Eric Farnsworth said in a speech last month. “Economic growth across the region is at historic highs, particularly in nations that export natural resources and primary products in agriculture, energy, and mining. Even the so-called populists speak in the language of fiscal restraint, low inflation, and attracting foreign investment,” said Farnsworth, who now serves as vice president of the Council of the Americas. “Democracy across the region requires nurturing but it is largely secure, and human rights have never been more respected.”
… resümiert Duncan Currie die ökonomische Situation Lateinamerikas beim “American”. Ist der sozialistische Weg, den Chavez und Morales eingeschlagen haben, also doch der richtige? Leider ist dies absolut nicht der Fall:
In terms of the “leftist” electoral wave, it is crucially important to distinguish the market-friendly democratic left from the anti-market radical left. As foreign policy scholar Walter Russell Mead has written in The New Republic, “Latin America is now beginning to acquire something it has sorely lacked: a left-of-center political leadership able to combine its mission of serving the poor with a firm commitment to currency stability, the rule of law, and the development of a favorable business climate.”
This has been amply demonstrated by the current center-left governments of Chile, Brazil, Peru, and Uruguay, which rank among the most pro-market regimes in the region.
Currie erinnert alle Linken daher noch einmal an eine unangenehme Wahrheit (die auch schon auf diesem Blog zu lesen war):
Of the seven Latin American nations polled in the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Survey, majorities in Chile (75 percent), Brazil (74 percent), Peru (70 percent), Mexico (66 percent), and Bolivia (59 percent) expressed little or no confidence in Chávez “to do the right thing regarding world affairs.” Even in Argentina, perhaps the most anti-American country in the region, 43 percent of respondents had little or no confidence in Chávez.
In the same poll, majorities in Venezuela (72 percent), Brazil (65 percent), Chile (60 percent), Mexico (55 percent), and Bolivia (53 percent), along with a plurality in Peru (47 percent), agreed that “most people are better off in a free-market economy, even though some people are rich and some are poor.” As Pew reported, “There is broad support for free-market economic policies across Latin America, despite the election in the past decade of leftist leaders.” Indeed, majorities in Venezuela (74 percent), Brazil (70 percent), Mexico (65 percent), Chile (63 percent), and Peru (61 percent), along with a plurality in Bolivia (49 percent), said that foreign companies were having a “good” impact on their countries.
Ein Grund, warum der praktisch angewandte Sozialismus bei den Volksmassen so schnell unbeliebt wird, dürfte auch hier die damit einhergehende staatliche Repression sein.
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Siehe auch:
- Warum Südamerika vom Freihandel profitiert, 22. Dez. 2006.
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