Bank for the (very) Poor Bangladesh is known for being one of the most densely populated countries on Earth. This reputation has been established by a staggering number of 164 million citizens living in an area not much bigger than Greece. However, Bangladeshis are, on average, one of the poorest people in the world. The […]

Presidency of a socialist In 1970, Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential election as leader of the Unidad Popular coalition. He was the first Marxist ever to be elected president of liberal democracy in the entire world.  Soon after taking office, Allende’s first step was to implement a socialist program called La vía chilena al socialismo (“the […]