Translated from Spanish
Quoted: In fact, for the historian and writer Patrick Iber, author of Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, “it is very possible that a student activist in Nicaragua, fighting against the Ortega dictatorship, could move to the United States. and endorse Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren as president. Not everyone would, of course, but it would not be inconsistent, “he said in an interview with El Tiempo Latino.
Americans born in the 1990s have experienced various economic traumas in their lives, says the professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I think that when people express their support for socialism, what they are saying is that the capitalist system is not working well enough. They are saying: “My society says this is capitalism, and I am suffering, so I am against capitalism,” he explains. “These failures, even if someone from Venezuela or Nicaragua would prefer them to the failures of their systems, they are real and it is fair that politics is a scenario in which people demand that their countries do better.”