URSAL
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URSAL (Portuguese: União das Repúblicas Socialistas da América Latina, Union of Socialist Republics of Latin America) is a term coined in 2001 by Brazilian sociologist Maria Lúcia Victor Barbosa[1][2] to mock criticism from left-wing politicians and intellectuals with regards to the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.[3][4] The expression was taken seriously by Brazilian right-wingers, including Olavo de Carvalho, and resurfaced on YouTube and other media as a supposed Latin American integration plan backed by the São Paulo Forum.[5][6][7]
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In 2018, during the first Brazilian presidential debate, the then-federal deputy and presidential candidate Cabo Daciolo spoke of URSAL as a plan to end sovereignty in South America while questioning fellow candidate Ciro Gomes.[4][8] Daciolo said that URSAL would be a socialist federation of Latin American and Caribbean countries.[9]
See also
- Socialism in Brazil
- Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory
- Prometheism
- Patria Grande, another concept for a united Latin America
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