Latin America at the Crossroads

With all eyes focused on the war in Iraq, the U.S. press and even the foreign policy establishment has seemingly lost interest in the political and social unrest taking place in Latin America. Populist electoral victories beginning with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez in 1998 and 2000, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil (October), and Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador (November), have already changed the map of Latin American politics. Even if widespread populist and anti-IMF sentiment in Argentina does not end in a similar result there, all signs are that the revolt is spreading.
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