REPOST- Legitimacy Lost: Human Rights Discourse in Washington https://nacla.org/article/legitimacy-lost-human-rights-discourse-washington 

In a frenzy to realign right-wing forces and pressure President Obama to protect “human rights” and security in Latin America, Otto Reich, a former senior official in the administrations of presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, convened a hemispheric conference in Washington on May 26 called “Legitimacy Lost: How 21st Century Socialism Subverts Democracy in Latin America.” The event was co-sponsored by the right-wing Washington think tanks the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Institute, and the Center for Security Policy, as well as the Miami-based Inter-American Institute for Democracy and the Venezuelan opposition group Liberenlos Ya!. What is so striking about this conference is how this newly politicized and globalized rhetoric of democracy, human rights, and security has become the platform for defending and reinstating free market economics and neoliberal ideology in Latin America, which North American conservatives view as under attack by left-leaning leaders. As a whole, left-leaning socialist or social-democratic states have challenged the historic asymmetrical power relations with the United States. They have insisted on respect for national sovereignty by controlling their natural resources, rewriting their national constitutions to incorporate some of the most disenfranchised peoples, and promoting regional economic or trade pacts that do not include Washington. While during the Cold War, the U.S. promoted a discourse of security across the Western hemisphere over fears of the communist threat, we are now witnessing a strategic right-wing political platform whereby democracy is equated with free market capitalism, and “human rights violations” refer to new forms of state control over private interests.

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