All political parties have clienteles to take care of, and the insurgents are no exception.

Such distorted priorities reflect a simple reality: democracy in Latin America seems incapable of dismantling old networks of clienteles and their traditional power-sharing arrangements.

But perhaps the problem is deeper: global corporations, media cartels, and powerful bureaucracies are transforming political parties into organizations whose main task is no longer public service, but the protection of specific clienteles and interests.

Geopolitically, China has been actively building clienteles, most visibly through its Belt and Road Initiative, and it intends to “foster a new type of international relations” that departs from the model promoted by the US in the twentieth century.

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