A Quechua woman walks by a graffitied wall in Ayacucho, Peru. April 2011. AP Photo/Rodrigo ABD. All Rights Reserved.
In Peru, there is no left-wing political option representing the demand for greater distribution and inclusion. The weakness of the left there contradicted the region’s "turn to the left" in the decade of 2000.
In Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, leftist forces took advantage of the voters' discontent with the neoliberal policies of the 1990s to sail into government. They were able to benefit from a commodity boom to fund redistributive policies, which helped them expand their constituency.
