Leftovers

<p>Over a decade ago Jorge Castañeda wrote the classic <em>Utopia Unarmed</em> which offered a penetrating and comprehensive account of the Latin American left’s fate at the end of the Cold War. Since then the left across Latin America has travelled in paths no one could have predicted. Latin American nations from Mexico to Argentina wavered for years between leftism and American-supported neoliberalism but in recent years the left has experienced a tremendous resurgence throughout the region. However the left is not unified and as Castañeda Morales and their contributors show it has followed two distinct paths – a more cosmopolitan style leftism exemplified by Brazil and Chile and a left fuelled by populist nationalism that has clear debts to Perón or Cárdenas and is most evident in Venezuela Mexico’s PRD Bolivia and Argentina. <em>Leftovers</em> comprehensively updates this very important story with country and area specialists contributing.</p>