Progressive Options

After the year 2000 a range of progressive governments came into office across Latin America. To varying degrees they implemented economic policies that went against the dominant neo-liberal paradigm. However, their left critics complained that they were too timid and did not rely sufficiently on the social movements that had emerged in the 1990s. For others these governments were more populist than socialist and did not offer a real alternative. Whatever the case may be this period of the progressive governments in Latin America provided rich material for a rethinking of radical politics.