Elections 2012: What Now?

There was no single message to be culled from the region’s 2012 election results. Elections held in five American countries did, however, suggest the shapes of some alternative American futures. The voters have spoken. What now? Elections held in five American countries this past year raised some tantalizing questions and suggested some possibilities—some hopeful and some discomfiting—for the shape of the Latin American and inter-American future.