Contradictions in the Latin American Left
- Wednesday Aug 18,2010 03:43 PM
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- In Analysis and research
By: Immanuel Wallerstein - Source: Agence Globale
Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that left or left-of-center parties have won a remarkable series of elections during the decade. And collectively, Latin American governments have taken for the first time a significant degree of distance from the United States. Latin America has become a relatively autonomous geopolitical force on the world scene.
