The South American country has more than enough arable land to feed its 46 million people, writes Vijay Prashad. But during the rise of agribusiness, hunger and landlessness is growing and spawning new forms of protest.
By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Thirty yea
In 2000, Vladimir Putin began targeting oligarchs who did not bend to his authority. The loyalists who remained and new ones who subsequently got rich became like ATM machines for the president.
The oligarch yachts, estates, and planes may sit out of the control of their owners but they are not yet necessarily in the control of Western governments. Now policymakers in the U.S. are moving closer to changing that.