Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Dilma Rousseff. Asuntos del Sur. All rights reserved.
Are we witnessing the end of the progressive governments’ cycle in Latin America? Recently, when a number of progressive election victories took place in Uruguay, Brazil, El Salvador and Bolivia, the question seemed to fade. But the tide is turning. And it goes beyond equally recent election defeats in large cities and regions throughout Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina and Bolivia.
The latter have certainly carried some symbolic weight, but they seem to point towards a new equilibrium, rather than to a break in national support for progresismo. Beyond the polls, however, there looms the likelihood of a yet undetermined time of change. It is due to the exhaustion of the model and to the internal transformation of the progressive, plurinational or Bolivarian political narrative.
