{"id":615,"date":"2012-10-18T14:26:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/modernlatinamerica\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2012-10-18T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T19:26:56","slug":"the-pink-tide-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/modernlatinamerica\/chapters\/chapter-8-venezuela\/moments-in-venezuelan-history\/the-pink-tide-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pink Tide in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Overview
\n<\/strong>By Monica De Santiago<\/p>\n

Politically, Latin America has experienced many shifts.\u00a0 During the 1970s, many Latin American countries from Chile to Argentina had military regimes.\u00a0 During this period, leaders such as Velasco Ibarra and General Guillermo Rodriguez Lara ruled Ecuador.\u00a0 Military rule in Ecuador ended in 1979, and the country became more democratic and followed many of the neoliberal policies that took hold in Latin America throughout the 1980s and 1990s.\u00a0 Now in the 21st<\/sup> century, many Latin American countries are ruled by leftist (or left-of-center) governments.\u00a0 It is important to note that these leftist governments are different from the governments and ideology that were considered to be \u201cleft\u201d in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.\u00a0 It is also important to understand that it is not possible to characterize all of these new governments under the same umbrella except to say that these governments differ from traditional parties.\u00a0 According to Mabel Mora\u00f1a, these leftist governments generally employ:<\/p>\n