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This timely book analyzes the governing experiences of the nine major leftist governments in Latin America. The individual country case study chapters are preceded by chapters that frame the discussion by considering the theoretical implications of the Pink Tide experience relating to globalization, the state, and neo-extractivism. The contributors examine the Pink Tide policies and rhetoric that gained widespread approval and led to the long tenure of many of these governments. These included ambitious social programs, prioritizing the needs of the poor, nationalistic foreign policy, economic nationalism, and asserting control of strategic sectors of the economy. The book continues by taking a critical look at policies that have contributed to recent setbacks, acknowledging the inability of progressive governments to overcome embedded structures holding back economic development. One such setback has come from the opposition—often supported by powerful foreign actors—pressuring the government into making concessions and carrying out policies that ultimately undermined economic and political stability. With its balanced and thorough assessment, this book will provide readers with a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of the political, economic, and sociocultural reality of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
The contributors critically examine these policies, which were politically successful in the short run but eventually backfired in the form of corruption, bureaucratic waste, and economic sluggishness. With its thorough and knowledgeable assessment, this book will provide readers with a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of the political, economic, and sociocultural reality of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.
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
