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.

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s team is gaming out an aggressive strategy toward Latin America that will be a crucial element to plans to deport ...

When 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 ...

The leftist leaders of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia are trying to pressure Maduro to negotiate a way out of Venezuela's election crisis. The post Venezuela's Election Crisis Is Dividing Latin ...

Latin America’s left-wing leaders instead want space to pursue their own priorities, including a great deal of sustained commercial interaction with China, without fear of incurring Washington ...

Rebecca Bill Chávez, president of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, believes that measuring Latin America’s leaders on a traditional political axis is outmoded.

And yet, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and other leaders of Latin America’s Jurassic left remained conspicuously silent about Cuba’s “paquetazo,” as they usually refer to austerity ...

By failing to condemn Maduro’s electoral fraud, some of Latin America’s left-wing leaders are fueling regional instability on top of betraying their ideals.

A generation ago, U.S. cold warrior Henry Kissinger coddled Latin America’s right-wing monsters. Today the region’s tyrants are left-wing — and so are their Kissinger-esque enablers.

Guy Sorman The Latin American Left Is in Flames Caught between inflation, falling public revenues, and their own demagoguery, the continent’s new socialist leaders are at risk of being crushed.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's election in Brazil is the latest triumph for the left, which now controls six of Latin America's seven largest countries.