Discontent and the Left Turn in Latin America

The Pragmatic Turn of Democracy in Latin america

The expansion and incorporation of experimentalist forms of government in a number of Latin American democracies does not aim to destabilize representative institutions, nor to substitute them with alternative, participatory or deliberative ones. Rather, this pragmatic change in Latin American democracies attempts to correct some of the alleged failures of representative institutions as well as...

Latin America at the Turn of a New Century

The great economic, social and institutional changes engendered by development often progress slowly and haltingly. Consequently, advances in the development process are best measured over a long period of time. Using the start of a new century as its milestone, this edition of the Economic and Social Progress Report assesses Latin America’s evolving development process in its various dimension...

The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America

Latin America’s “left turn” was the focus of a cluster of thoughtful articles in the October 2006 issue of this journal. Since then, the trend toward the left and toward populist governments has deepened. In South America, the rise of the left is unmistakable, with Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela led by presidents with varying degrees and shapes ...

Explaining the Rise of the Left in Latin America

I amBition vs . success in Latin america ’ s Left

l l i l a s p o r t a l In recenT years, LaTIn amerIca has experienced a rising tide of leftist governments. Hugo Chávez initiated this wave in 1998 by capturing Venezuela’s presidency with radical populist slogans and promises of profound change; he now wants to institute “twenty-first-century socialism.” Then in 2000, for the first time since the violent ouster of Salvador Allende in 1973, a ...