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  • Authoritarianism and the “Pink Tide”

    During the 21st century, popular elections brought many left-wing governments into power in Latin America in a movement known popularly as the “Pink Tide.” The movement rose up in 1999 in response to the demise of decades-long, right-wing governments that were supported by the United States, and gained ground because of popular disillusionment with the…

  • Moderately Extreme: Ideological Flexibility in Latin American Politics

    At the turn of the new year, Chile and Brazil seem to be in the best economic shape of all the Latin American nations. That means the two countries are probably run in similar fashion, right? Wrong. Well, sort of wrong. Roughly one year ago, Sebastián Piñera, a conservative businessman who saved his country from…