Can we say that the Arab world has reach Latin America's political consciousness?

[R_P_A_S]

Granted that region has always been in some battle or an other against some type of imperialist power. Way before America even existed.

As far as my post title; I'm referring to Latin America after the Cuban Revolution. How more and more governments are more left leaning and their people seem to be more aware of the U.S role in their countries and how some of their elections are rigged and so forth.

Do you guys think the Arab countries are starting to get more politically conscious and wanting to change their governments WHILE ALSO distancing them selves from radical religious groups that are also ultra nationalist?

I would love for this to be the case. People finally being able to determine their own faith. well at least most of it.

Can we draw parallels between the two regions? Is what's happening now a way forward or will it be an other set back?

[Delirium]

apples and oranges

[Kalifornia]

First I do not like the banding together of millions of people into a kind of ethnic consciousness.

However, if we looked at the two land masses, we would see far more revolutionary views in America Latina compared to the Arabic world, which is becoming progressive in the way of wanting real bourgeoisie democracy, not socialism.

However the kind of analysis your looking for is not really possible, as there are for example quite a few marxists in Tunisia who will be very revolutionary, just as there are in America, france, Britain, Cuba, Colombia etc

[Raúl Duke]

The only similarity one could arguably say at this point is that they're anti-imperialist in the sense that there's increasing concern over US influence.

Besides that, while in Latin-America you can see a lot of movements that are self-described explicitly as socialist/etc, in the Arab world I don't think these movements per se are as strong/big although they're perhaps part of the 'opposition to the status-quo' coalition. But in general, and my knowledge is limited, it does seem that Arabs are concerned over the authoritarian nature of their governments, corruption, and for social reforms (although this doesn't automatically translate to socialism, they just want able leaders who can deal with their country's pressuring issues many of which are social like unemployment which are quite high in Egypt and maybe Tunisia).

[Rakhmetov]

The Arabs are not there yet. There is still a lot of superstitious nonsense in the minds of fundamentalists. But as Lenin once noted, "Life teaches."