'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach
us about the recent history of this region, and about the human
impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben
Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is'A REVOLUTION IS A
STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.' FIDEL
CASTRO For more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed
through the politics of Latin America. His towering political
influence still looms over the region today. The swing to the Left
in Latin America, known as the 'Pink Tide', was the most important
political movement in the Western Hemisphere in the 21st century.
It involved some of the biggest, most colourful and most
controversial characters in Latin America for decades, leaders who
would leave an indelible mark on their nations and who were adored
and reviled in equal measure. Parties became secondary to
individual leaders and populism reigned from Venezuela to Brazil,
from Central America to the Caribbean, financed by a spike in
commodity prices and the oil-backed largesse of Venezuela's
charismatic socialist president, Hugo Chavez. Yet within a decade
and a half, it was all over. Today, this wave of populism has left
the Americas in the hands of some of the most authoritarian and
dangerous leaders since the military dictatorships of the 1970s.
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