The Twenty first-century wave of left-wing leaders triggered a US response, culminating within the 2026 seize of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.
Populism, international intervention, and fierce inside struggles: this concluding episode sees Twenty first-century energy struggles remodel Latin America. It follows the “pink tide” from Hugo Chavez’s 1998 victory in Venezuela by way of new leaders like Brazil’s Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva and Bolivia’s Evo Morales to the arrival of a brand new type of Argentinian girl president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. This was an period of corruption scandals, drug-trafficking, migration crises, and dramatic turns similar to Brazil’s polarising swing from Lula to Jair Bolsonaro and again once more. It was additionally a brand new age of United States interference, from the US’s backing of Alvaro Uribe’s hardline methods in Colombia to its January 2026 assault on Venezuela and its abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.
Now, as Chinese language affect grows and Washington’s rhetoric hardens, solutions to the query “What path lies forward for Latin America?” should additionally take into account the pressures on democracy exerted by autocrats, militias, and resurgent authoritarian populism.
Bringing collectively first-hand testimony, knowledgeable perception, and uncommon archives, this movie displays on how Latin America’s future appears certain to US ambition – but pushed by its personal immensely sophisticated politics of survival, desires of justice and stability, and peace.
Printed On 23 Feb 2026
