Climate change has been at the forefront of international discussion with the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place this November. An event on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst discussed the social movements taking place in Latin America in support of the climate. The panel discussion, titled “A Blue Tide Rising in Latin America?” was held by the Political Economy Research Institute, and focused on the grassroots movements based on Indigenous peoples’ involvement to make a greener Latin America.
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Several Latin American nations have experienced protests within recent months. Chile — the “first laboratory of neoliberal policy,” according to Pintetta — witnessed immense national solidarity movements sparked by the increased price of public transportation and centered around the country’s drastic wealth disparity.