American Quote by Stephen Kinzer

Latin Americans have gotten tired of the Washington consensus - a neoliberalism that has aggravated misery and poverty.

— Hugo Chavez

Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the international financial…

— Noam Chomsky

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence…

— Noreena Hertz

The liberal order led by the United States favored an open world connected by the free flow of people, goods, ideas and capital, a…

— Antony Blinken

“most discussions of George W. Bush’s foreign policy focus on the supposed innovation of a small group of neoconservative intellectuals in asserting the right…

— Greg Grandin

In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but also the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The story in America was a vibrant, bottoms-up democracy subverted by corporations and financial speculators. Those people now control much of the narrative. They…

— Kalle Lasn

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that…

— Sebastian Pinera

American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general. We realized…

— Alex Abreu

We'll always romanticize the past. We did not have this great, glorious era where everything was bipartisan and everything worked, but there was room…

— Steve Kornacki

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the…

— Joe Conason