WILL CHILE'S NEW 36-YEAR-OLD PRESIDENT BURY NEOLIBERALISM? - with Noam Titelman (and Ana Arendar)

In a few days, a 36-year-old former student leader who wants to
fight inequality will become the President of Chile. He says, “If
Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its
grave”.


We find out about what President-elect Gabriel Boric wants to do,
and about the movement of young people whose protests have swung
the pendulum of power in Chile.


We take a trip to 1973 to the birth of neoliberalism – the
economic ideology that would go on to spread across the world –
under military dictatorship.


And we ask if this is part of a wider progressive wave across
Latin America.


Co-hosts Nadia and Nabil are joined by two amazing guests for
this fascinating conversation.


Noam Titelman played a vital part in the Chilean youth movement
as an activist, was the spokesperson of national university
students' confederation (CONFECH), and was a founding member of
the Broad Front (Frente Amplio) Chilean political coalition
established by former student activists. Currently he's a PhD
researcher in the London School of Economics and Political
Science.


We also speak to Ana Caistor Arendar who is campaigns lead at
Progressive International, which unites, organizes, and mobilizes
progressive forces around the world. She was formerly a
journalist in Latin America before going on to become an expert,
activist and advocate on inequality on the continent and
worldwide.


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If you’re joining us on EQUALS for the first time, tune in to our
earlier interviews – from talking with the award-winning
journalist Gary Younge on what we can learn from Martin Luther
King Jr to fight inequality, to rebel feminist economist Jayati
Ghosh, best-selling author Anand Giridharadas on whether we need
billionaires, and the Managing Director of the International
Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva on what communism has to do
with today’s pandemic. 


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