Latin America's Left Turn

2006/01/01 by Jorge G. Castañeda · 595 citations
Social Sciences · #Development economics #Economics #Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism #International Relations in Latin America #Latin Americans #Law #Political science #World Systems and Global Transformations

paper · doi:10.2307/20031965

published in Foreign Affairs 85(3), 28 (Council on Foreign Relations)

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Abstract

With all the talk of Latin America's turn to the left, few have noticed that there are really two lefts in the region

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