URSAL
URSAL (Portuguese: União das Repúblicas Socialistas da América Latina, Union of Socialist Republics of Latin America) is a term coined in 2001 by Brazilian sociologist Maria Lúcia Victor Barbosa[1][2] to mock criticism from left-wing politicians and intellectuals with regards to the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.[3][4] The expression was taken seriously by Brazilian right-wingers, including Olavo de Carvalho, and resurfaced on YouTube and other media as a supposed Latin American integration plan backed by the São Paulo Forum.[5][6][7]
Appearances
[edit | edit source]In 2018, during the first Brazilian presidential debate, the then-federal deputy and presidential candidate Cabo Daciolo spoke of URSAL as a plan to end sovereignty in South America while questioning fellow candidate Ciro Gomes.[4][8] Daciolo said that URSAL would be a socialist federation of Latin American and Caribbean countries.[9]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Socialism in Brazil
- Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory
- Prometheism
- Freemasonry in Cuba
- Patria Grande, another concept for a united Latin America
References
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- BOMFIM, Manoel. A América Latina: males de origem. Ed. do centenário. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 2005. 390 p. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Programa Pensamento Crítico - Pátria Grande (E58). Video produced by the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. In the episode, Nildo Ouriques and Waldir Rampinelli discuss the idea of Great Nation, raised in the presidential debate under the name of URSAL.
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