URSAL explained

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]}

Appearances

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.^{[8] [9]} Daciolo said that URSAL would be a socialist federation of Latin American and Caribbean countries.^[10]

See also

• Socialism in Brazil
• Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory
• Prometheism
• Patria Grande, another concept for a united Latin America

Further reading

• BOMFIM, Manoel. A América Latina: males de origem. Ed. do centenário. Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 2005. 390 p.

External links

• Programa Pensamento Crítico - Pátria Grande (E58). Video produced by the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. In the episode, Nildo Ouriques and Waldir Rampinelli discuss the idea of Great Nation, raised in the presidential debate under the name of URSAL.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tudo que sabemos sobre a URSAL. 2018-08-14. Vice.
2. Originally, she used the pejorative word Republiquetas (little republics) instead of Repúblicas.
3. Web site: Os companheiros. 2001-12-08. Folha de Londrina. pt.
4. Web site: Crítica do PT, socióloga diz que inventou Ursal em 2001 como ironia.. 2018-08-13. Folha de S. Paulo.
5. Web site:
   1. ElectionWatch: URSAL, Illuminati, and Brazil's YouTube Subculture
   . 2018-08-30. Digital Forensic Research Lab. Atlantic Council.
6. 2018-08-30. YouTube ajudou a amplificar teoria da Ursal, diz relatório. Folha de S.Paulo.
7. Web site: La URSAL: una teoría de la conspiración que llegó al debate político de Brasil. 2018-08-16. El País. es.
8. Web site: Crítica do PT, socióloga diz que inventou Ursal em 2001 como ironia.. 2018-08-13. Folha de S. Paulo.
9. Web site: Cabo Daciolo pode ter um papel mais importante do que parece na eleição, diz Financial Times. 2018-08-21. InfoMoney.
10. Web site: Citada por Cabo Daciolo, Ursal seria 5ª maior economia do mundo.. 2018-08-10. O Globo.