Kyla Sankey teaches in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London.
A few years ago, commentators were announcing the demise of the Latin American left. But if Lula wins this autumn’s presidential election in Brazil, the Left will be governing the region’s six largest economies for the first time.
Latin America has always been vulnerable to shocks from the global economy. But there’s no precedent for the COVID-19-induced slump that’s about to engulf the continent.
The Pink Tide governments’ efforts to break from the tyrannies of world market dependence are not new. Neither are their failures to do so.
With peace on the horizon, the Colombian left’s future seems hopeful, but daunting challenges confront it.
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos was doomed by his path of securing peace through elite pacts.
Latin America’s “pink tide” governments challenge neoliberalism and US hegemony, but leave the basic structures of capitalism intact.