Caught between conflicting notions of “democracy,” leveled on one hand by a fearmongering right and on the other by a critical grassroots left, Mexico’s government must grapple with its undemocratic condition of global dependence.
En el mundo multipolar, los gobiernos progresistas de hoy enfrentan desafíos y oportunidades muy distintos al primer ciclo. ¿Cómo afrontarán los retos?
As the Left in power returns, the lessons of the Pink Tide have become increasingly relevant. Recognizing governments’ well-conceived policies as well as their errors is key to understanding the comeback.
Political theorist Mabel Thwaites Rey discusses the rise and decline of progressive governments in Latin America, dynamics that spurred the “end of the cycle,” and characteristics of the new Right.
In Catalyst, René Rojas provides an impressive structural analysis of the Pink Tide’s rise and fall. But to explain and confront a resurgent Right across the region, our understandings of the Left turn’s shortcomings must go further.
