What Led to Latin America’s Record Year of Leftwing Election Victories

The Causes, the Context and the Consequences

Colomia’s current president, Gustavo Petro, speaking at a climate justice rally in 2015 CC-BY-NC 2.0

Not a lot of people in the US know, or care to know, what is happening in Latin America. This is very tragic, because US foreign policy has had a tremendous(ly bad) impact on Latin America for generations, and it still does.