The South American Pipeline (Radio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan)

The South American Pipeline (Radio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan)
McIntryre, Linden and Nitzan, Jonathan. (2006). The Current, CBC Radio. 3 February. (Interview; English).

Alternative Locations

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/media/200602/20060203thecurrent_sec3.ram, http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2006/200602/20060203.html

Abstract or Brief Description

Duration: 11 minutes

FROM THE INTERVIEW:

It's not by chance that President Chavez calls this pipeline project the beginning of a "South American consensus", something that could economically link that continent's countries. Using that term is seen a direct challenge to the once-championed "Washington Consensus", which referred to a Free Trade Area for the Americas--one that was supposed to extend NAFTA from Alaska to Patagonia.

Now some observers say the pipeline points to a Latin America poised to exclude American political and economic influence from the region. To help us sort through the rhetoric, and to put the proposed pipeline into a continential and global context, we were joined by Jonathan Nitzan. He is a Political Economist at York University in Toronto, but this morning, he was in Montreal.

Language

English

Publication Type

Interview

Keywords

capitalism energy pink revolution regionalism social cosmology socialism South America Washington Consensus

Subject

BN Conflict & Violence
BN Trade
BN State & Government
BN Civil Society
BN Agency
BN Region - Latin America & Caribbean
BN Hegemony
BN Comparative
BN International & Global
BN Business Enterprise
BN Policy
BN Crisis
BN Growth

ID Code

197

Deposited On

10 February 2006