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This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. With its balanced and thorough assessment, this study will provide readers with a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of the political, economic, and sociocultural reality of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
List of contents
Foreword: The Global Significance of Latin America's New Radical Left
William I. Robinson
Introduction: Complexities of the Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Power
Steve Ellner
Part I: Theoretical, Historical and International Background
Chapter 1: The Radical Left's Turbulent Transitions: An Overview
Roger Burbach
Chapter 2: Brief Hypotheses on the State, Democracy, and Revolution in Latin America Today
Diana Raby
Chapter 3: Institutional Conflict and the Bolivarian Revolution: Venezuela's Negotiation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas
Marcel Nelson
Part II: The Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Power in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador
Chapter 4: Social and Political Diversity and the Democratic Road to Change in Venezuela
Steve Ellner
Chapter 5: "Bad Left Government" versus "Good Left Social Movements"? Creative Tensions within Bolivia's Process of Change
Federico Fuentes
Chapter 6: Rafael Correa and Social Movements in Ecuador
Marc Becker
Part III: Influences of the Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Cuba
Chapter 7: The Twenty-First-Century Road to Socialism in El Salvador and Nicaragua: Making Sense of Apparent Paradoxes
Hector Perla Jr. and Héctor M. Cruz-Feliciano
Chapter 8: Cuba's New Socialism: Different Visions Shaping Current Changes
Camila Piñeiro Harnecker
Part IV: Economy, Society, and Media
Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Social Production Companies in Venezuela
Thomas Purcell
Chapter 10: Constituent Moments, Constitutional Processes: Social Movements and the New Latin American Left
George Ciccariello-Maher
Chapter 11: The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left
Kevin Young
Chapter 12: Concluding Observations: The Twenty-First-Century Radical Left and the Latin American Road to Change
Steve Ellner
About the author
Steve Ellner is professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Anzoátegui Campus, Venezuela.
