Latin America’s two biggest countries, Brazil and Mexico, will have new presidents soon, ... Latin America’s political map may shift to the left much sooner than you thought ...

Once in a while, something big happens in Latin America. A few years ago, it was the rise of the political left. Since 2006, a dozen countries have held presidential elections, and, in contest ...

This left is a good thing for Latin America. Its political landscape is mainly where the region must be governed, and, if Chile is an example, it is the way out of poverty, authoritarian rule and ...

Latin America, it seems, is poised to swing decisively to the left (see map). The picture is more complicated than it looks. The dominant trend for several years has been anti-incumbency, at least ...

W hen Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the left-wing Workers’ Party won Brazil’s presidential election in October many commentators rushed to colour the map of Latin America red. In January, for ...

Latin America Shifts Left South American democracies are beginning to assert greater independence from the United States. Subscribe to NPR's Up First Email; Economy, Politics Collide in a Divided ...

Lula, as Brazil’s next president is widely known, will immediately confront the same challenge already dogging the rest of Latin America’s new left: meeting those high expectations.

In seeking to build a "coalition of the willing" for the invasion of Iraq, Washington was disappointed by Latin America's cool response. It's a New World, and Latin America Is on the Map - Los ...

COMMENTARY: The Latin left's bromance with an Iranian accused of bombing a Jewish center helps U.S. conservatives' efforts to paint liberals as anti-Semitic.

MEXICO CITY (Tribune News Service) — Over the last four years, leftist candidates have won presidential elections in one Latin American country after the other: Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru ...