Jeffery R. Webber is presently a senior lecturer of international political economy at Goldsmiths, University of London. He will take up a new position in the Department of Politics at York University, Toronto in January 2020. His latest book is The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left. He is presently at work on The Latin American Crucible: Politics and Power in the New Era, under contract with Verso.
The Pink Tide governments failed because they couldn’t transform the region’s economy. But the resurgent right doesn’t have a solution to the economic crisis either — and the impasse is deepening the basis for violent, reactionary politics.
The Latin American left was on life-support in 1990. A decade later, it was in power.
Pink Tide governments delivered much-needed reforms. But they also defanged the movements that brought them to power.
Canadian foreign policy sees Latin America as a playground for its most voracious corporations.
Evo Morales’s government has increasingly incorporated conservative elements into the Bolivian state.
Left and indigenous forces in Ecuador are attempting to create an alternative to both Rafael Correa and the Right.
Protests are growing in Ecuador, where radicals must contend with both the Right and Rafael Correa.
E. P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.
Evo Morales’s administration has scored some successes, but it has failed to deliver on its more radical promises.
In a leftward-moving region, the iron fist of Honduras’ Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo makes him Obama’s sort of “democrat.”
What’s next for the Bolivarian Revolution?