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Latin America elections: Is the ‘Pink Tide’ washing away?

Latin America Program Director Cynthia Arnson and Associate Director Eric Olson comment about upcoming elections in Latin America.

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Taken together, the two contests — one in mighty Brazil, the other in neighbouring Uruguay — are likely to provide something of a report card on the performance of the Latin American left in two of the region’s republics where left-wing rule has long been established...

“There’s just a basic distinction,” says Cynthia Arnson, co-editor of a recently published study of the region, entitled Latin American Populism in the Twenty-first Century. “I would find it very difficult to mention Mujica and Chavez or Maduro in the same breath.”

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