Research Article
Pink Tide: The Struggle of Venezuela and Bolivia for Social Sustainability
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.24-10-2019.2290578, author={Imelda Masni Juniaty Sianipar and Arthur Jefferson Maya}, title={Pink Tide: The Struggle of Venezuela and Bolivia for Social Sustainability}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (formerly ICCSSIS), ICCSIS 2019, 24-25 October 2019, Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICSSIS}, year={2019}, month={12}, keywords={pink tide venezuela bolivia social sustainability state left}, doi={10.4108/eai.24-10-2019.2290578} }- Imelda Masni Juniaty Sianipar
Arthur Jefferson Maya
Year: 2019
Pink Tide: The Struggle of Venezuela and Bolivia for Social Sustainability
ICSSIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-10-2019.2290578
Abstract
Since Latin America's transition to neoliberalism in the 1980s, the state has been directed to support privatization and implement structural adjustment to integrate the national economy into the global market. The neoliberal model dominated Latin America for a decade, but in the late 1990s, the community support to neoliberal platform declined due to the increase of social inequality and poverty of the middle class, working-class and indigenous population. Resistance starts in Venezuela then spread to Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador and other Latin American countries known as the "Pink Tide". In the pink tide framework, countries are directed to redistribute the state wealth to low-income families so that the sustainability of society can be maintained. Governments implements such kind of policy is categorized as state left.