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.

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 ...

The map of the region has once again turned pink but the ideological sky is murkier. ... Latin America’s left is still bound by common ideals.

COMMENTARY As long as Latin America's left and right wings keep eroding democratic institutions, the gang wing will keep gaining power in countries like Ecuador. Search Query Show Search.

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.

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. August 1, 2024 at 12:01 AM EDT.

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 ...