Certain solidarity already existed between countries of Latin-America even before the establishment of modern ways of cooperation. It was – and is – based on the common culture, language, the similar social structure and unsolved problems and last but not least on having a common power ruling them.
Supranational alliances reshape the centre-periphery relations in Latin America and the Caribbean, causing internal fractions in the economic and political links of the continent and claiming for a new geopolitical approach. The author focuses on countries that in fact able to position themselves as semi-peripheries. Mexico supports the US interests thus becoming its subordinated periphery, Brazil has its own ambition for power in the North-South play, thus questions and redefines its relationship to the su
Globalization provides a new dimension in trafficking of men, the modern slavery. In the third world and in certain countries in East Europe – and in the world as general – trafficking of women for the sex industry became a growing business.
on the book of Eszter Bartha: The Road of Workers from Socialism to Capitalism, East Europe 1968-1989. L'Harmattan, Budapest, 2009
The essay is examining the relationship and inherent links between decision makers and the ones who rebel against these decisions. The analysis unites points of earlier ideas of the author that were partly already published in Eszmélet.