God help me I have made a Latin American politics 101 political compass to try to get people to a basic level of understanding as to why politics in Latin America is extremely complicated. Specifically the extractivism vs environmental axis is

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EXTREMELY important especially when you're trying to sort out the differences between different factions of the left. There's a massive divide between on the one hand socialists, social democrats, and what's probably best understood as moderate

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developmentalists, who want to continue resource extraction (mining, oil extraction, constructing mega projects like dams) as a way to fund the welfare state and generally improve economic conditions at the expense of basically destroying the

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environment, and Indigenous groups, environmentalists, and eco-socialist on the other hand who want to protect their land and leave the oil in the ground. These factions fight constantly because the moment any left-wing government takes power

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the fight begins over resource extraction. What complicates everything is that the right and liberal NGOs of various capacities also exist and essentially every faction makes opportunistic alliances with each other depending on who's in power and

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what the situation on the ground is, which leads to EXTRAORDINARY messy political and social movements. And this is all before you get to incredible array of different Indigenous groups with different agendas who fall across basically the entire

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political spectrum, the various factions of the right, the divisions between different sectors of national capital, and of course the looming threat of American imperialism (and also the imperialism of regional hegemons of countries like Brazil).

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And this again ignores the sort of classical political compass and the debate over the role of the state, which takes on different contours in much of Latin America because of its relation to the question of Indigenous sovereignty vs the settler

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state and the existence of strong independent social movements who must determine their relationship to the state and the various political parties. All of which is to say that this extremely goddamn complicated, a lot of the questions involved

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(like extraction for the welfare state vs Indigenous land rights) don't have easy plug and chug answers that can be solved by consulting the sacred texts of socialism, and anyone trying to tell you it's simple is trying to sell you something.

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