Pink Tide 2.0? Latin America's leftist wave w/NACLA | The Marc Steiner Show

A decade ago, the so-called "Pink Tide" of leftist governments in Latin America seemed to be heading towards a tragic end. However, events in the past few years have raised questions about whether a new Pink Tide has emerged. The defeat of the coup government in Bolivia, the election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras, the rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, the historic election of Gustavo Petro in Colombia, and now the return of Lula in Brazil suggests a new age may be dawning in the region. Yet for all the successes, there have also been setbacks—the coup against Pedro Castillo in Peru last fall, and the failure of the Gabriel Boric government to pass a new constitution stand out as the sharpest examples. In the first of a four-part series of special collaboration episodes between <a href="https://nacla.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NACLA</a> and <i>The Marc Steiner Show</i>, we turn to a panel of regional experts to discuss the context and prospects of the 'New Pink Tide' to steer the region towards a more prosperous and just future. This episode is co-hosted with Dr. Hilary Goodfriend.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/HilaryGoodfrien" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hilary Goodfriend</a> is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Latino and Latin American Studies Research Center at the University of California, Riverside. She is a contributing editor for Jacobin and Jacobin América Latina. She is also on the editorial board of NACLA.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/triofrancos?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Thea Riofrancos</a> is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and a member of the<a href="https://www.climateandcommunity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Climate + Community Project</a>. She is the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador from Duke University Press.<br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/safbf" target="_blank" rel="nor