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

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