Chomsky on Latin American Social Movements

This video is re-posted from ZNet.

Prolific author and political commentator Noam Chomsky talks about the historical significance of current social movements in Latin America. Chomsky draws attention to the particular importance of growing Latin American autonomy from the US.

In this excerpt from a larger conversation, Chomsky talks about the model of Bolivian democracy, the new Latin American economic alliance, the growing recognition of indigenous rights and what this could mean for the rest of the hemisphere.