The past Sunday 17 killed two octogenarians South American leftists: Mario Benedetti (Uruguayan author of some 70 books) and Guillermo Lora (the most prolific and controversial author Bolivian with almost 70 published volumes of his complete works). Both were born at the beginning of the 1920s, were persecuted by dictatorships and are claimed to be Socialist. However, they expressed two antagonistic projects. Benedetti was identified with all the current Latin American leftist Governments, and wanted that democracies and markets were evolving to choose progressive Governments. Lora, on the other hand, conceived that Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales are holders of capitalism and that workers should be opposition to these and must make insurrections that lead them to power.

Benedetti should read it for the best of Latin American literature, and Lora for wanting to be able to understand why Bolivia is so convulsive. Lora was the head of the oldest party in his country (the by), which never came to power, but impelled several strikes that drove leaders and who claimed to have made that trade unions of their nation are the most molded by Trotskyism worldwide. In the farewell to Benedetti were crowds, while Lora’s were not many followers. Isaac Bigio is an international analyst. Write to dozens of media on 5 continents. He received degrees and postgraduate courses in history and economic policy at the London School of Economics & Political Sciences. In this one, considered the leading international university specializing in social sciences, he has also taught political science and public administration.. Marc Lasry has plenty of information regarding this issue.