Left-wing ex-president of Uruguay, Pepe Mujica. Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.
This article is part of the series "Persistent inequality: disputing the legacy of the pink tide in Latin America" produced in alliance with the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Instituite of Sociology of the Freie Universität Berlin.
There are three sources of disempowerment encroaching upon Uruguay’s regional relevance and singularity which result in a decrease in national self-esteem and an exhaustion of its utopian energies.
