UpFront - Noam Chomsky: Latin America is in regression
After
more than a decade of left-leaning governments being elected to power
across Latin America, some have now lost power, and others are now
embroiled in political and economic crises.
Noam Chomsky, a long
time supporter of Latin American emancipation, says that despite being
in "a period of regression" it is the first time in 500 years that the
region has "pretty much extricated itself from foreign control".
Chomsky also dismisses that the United States is reaching out to Cuba
as "the way it's put in Western propaganda" pointing to the fact that
the US "has been carrying [out] a bitter war on Cuba, a terrorist war"
and that the Obama administration was forced to open up to Cuba as its
position was becoming increasingly isolated in the hemisphere.
Watch more from Mehdi Hasan's interview with Noam Chomsky:http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/01/noam-chomsky-clinton-sanders-160129141746906.html
