Understanding Latin America’s New Political Paradigm
Latin America's 40-year history of political shifts between center-right and center-left governments is evolutionary: each new stage builds upon the previous one. Much like creative destruction in the economy, this political evolution preserves what works, discards what does not, and sometimes adds new disruptive features.
MONTEVIDEO – Center-left and populist governments’ hegemony in Latin America for most of the last decade now seems to be coming to an end, with center-right parties rising to power in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Peru.