Venezuela election points to a rejection of populism, not the 'pink tide' Simon Tisdall, The Guardian, 7 Dec 2015
The resounding defeat suffered by Nicolás Maduro’s Socialists in Venezuela’s elections will be hailed in conservative circles as a definitive end to the so-called Bolivarian revolution by Washington’s long-time nemesis and Maduro’s predecessor, the late Hugo Chávez. Even before the results were confirmed in Caracas, regional analysts were already pointing to what they believe is an even bigger, continental shift: the reversal of the implicitly anti-Washington “pink tide”, or the turn to the left, that swept through many Latin American countries in the opening years of the new century. But such conclusions, in Venezuela’s case and more broadly, seem premature. Leftists argue it makes no sense to view political change in Latin America solely or even primarily through the distorting prism of relations with the US. Many factors are at work, and their impact on different countries is neither uniform nor pre-determined. full: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/07/venezuela-election-points-to-a-rejection-of-populism-and-not-the-pink-tide _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
