The Marxist Resurgence in Latin America | Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar

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Dan Crenshaw

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Colombia and Brazil recently elected far-left presidents, joining Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru in the growing leftist bloc. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar joins us to look at this Marxist resurgence in Latin America and what it means for American relations with these countries. We also talk about different approaches to solving the immigration crisis and uplifting the Northern Triangle countries. And Rep. Salazar, who spent three decades as a journalist covering politics and war in Latin America, describes what it was like to interview Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Augusto Pinochet.

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar represents the 27th Congressional District of Florida. She serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Committee on Small Business. She was the Central American Bureau Chief for Univision during the 80s. Follow her on Twitter at @RepMariaSalazar.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are created.
0:04.0	Because the member of Congress, I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.0	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:09.0	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.0	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:18.0	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.0	So I went to high school in Columbia in the late 90s and early 2000s.
0:28.0	My dad was in the oil and gas business.
0:30.0	So we moved from Houston to Columbia to a number of other places before high school.
0:36.0	And Plan Colombia was still taking hold there.
0:38.0	It was still drug-fueled violence.
0:41.0	And in the last 20 years, Colombia had dramatically changed.
0:43.0	You don't need an armed guard or armored escorts to leave the cities.
0:46.0	There's been a peace deal between the government and the FARC,
0:49.0	which is the Fuerzas Armeras, Vervelucenarias de Colombia.
0:53.0	That's the guerrilla group that was fighting the government.
0:56.0	The acreage of coca-crop where cartels would make their profits have been drastically reduced.
1:01.0	Colombia has gone from being a failed state and an unwilling partner to a reliable partner for the US
1:06.0	and a leader in Latin America.
1:08.0	Last month, Colombia elected Gustavo Petro, a former leftist or revolutionary with the 19th April movement.
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