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This multidisciplinary book presents a balanced view of contemporary leftist and center-leftist Latin American governments. Drawing on the relationships among economic, social, and political factors, it explores the historically unprecedented duration of the Pink Tide phenomenon as well as the setbacks and conservative inroads of recent years.
List of contents
Foreword
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Introduction: Latin America's Pink Tide Governments: Challenges, Breakthroughs, and Setbacks
Steve Ellner
PART I: THEORETICAL OVERVIEW
Introduction
1 Latin America's Pink Tide: The Straitjacket of Global Capitalism
William I. Robinson
2 Has the Pink Tide Cycle Come to an End? Will It Have a Long-Lasting Impact?
Steve Ellner
3 Walking the "Tightrope" of Socialist Governance: A Strategic Relational Analysis of Twenty-First-Century Socialism
Marcel Nelson
PART II: THE SOUTHERN CONE: BRAZIL, URUGUAY, AND ARGENTINA
Introduction
4 The Limits of Pragmatism: The Rise and Fall of the Brazilian Workers' Party (2002-2016)
Pedro Mendes Loureiro and Alfredo Saad-Filho
5 The Frente Amplio Governments in Uruguay: Policy Strategies and Results
Nicolás Bentancur and José Miguel Busquets
6 Kirchnerism in Latin America's Anti-neoliberal Cycle
Mabel Thwaites Rey and Jorge Orovitz Sanmartino
PART III: THE RADICAL PINK TIDE: VENEZUELA, BOLIVIA, AND ECUADOR
Introduction
7 Class Strategies in Chavista Venezuela: Pragmatic and Populist Policies in a Broader Context
Steve Ellner
8 An Opportunity Squandered? Elites, Social Movements, and the Bolivian Government of Evo Morales
Linda Farthing
9 Left Populism, Democracy, State Building and the Ephemeral Counterhegemony of the Citizens' Revolution in Ecuador
Patrick Clark and Jacobo García
10 Neo-extractivism, Class Formations, and the Pink Tide: Considerations on the Venezuelan Case
Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrández
PART IV: CENTRAL AMERICA: NICARAGUA, EL SALVADOR, AND MEXICO
Introduction
11 The Rise and Fall of Sandinista Alliances as a Means of Sociopolitical Change in Nicaragua
Héctor M. Cruz-Feliciano
12 The Limits of Change: El Salvador's FMLN in Power
Hilary Goodfriend
13 The Last Surfer to Hit the Beach: Mexico and the "Pink Tide"
John M. Ackerman
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Steve Ellner is a retired professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, and is currently associate managing editor of Latin American Perspectives. His books include Rethinking Venezuelan Politics and the edited Latin American Extractivism, Latin America’s Pink Tide, and Latin America’s Radical Left.
Summary
This multidisciplinary book presents a balanced view of contemporary leftist and center-leftist Latin American governments. Drawing on the relationship between economic, social, and political factors, it explores the historically unprecedented duration of the Pink Tide phenomenon as well as the setbacks and conservative inroads of recent years.
