Dramatic elections in Brazil, Chile and Colombia brought leftist governments into power across much of Latin America in 2022, capping the region's second "pink tide" in two decades.

Then the tide began to turn with the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998. By 2008, almost the entire region was in the pink with the notable exceptions of Colombia, Mexico, and a few others.

Colombia has elected its first leftist president, adding to a growing shift towards the left in the region and prompting talk of a new 'pink tide', a reference to a surge of leftist governments in ...

The Pink Tide meets a rightwing counter current Paradoxically those very problems which the left-leaning governments protested about, now have become theirs to solve once in power and at a time of ...

If the early 2000s saw the emergence of a Pink Tide in Latin America, these events will focus on the post-Covid '19 political development of the region at a time when new progressive governments have ...

Argentina’s Javier Milei Attempts To Turn Back the ‘Pink Tide’ Election Sunday could elevate a radical libertarian, free marketeer, and advocate of sound money to the presidency of the country whose ...

By 2017, right-of-center politicians dominated the region. But the pink tide began to rise once again a year later with Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador.