Latin American left

The worldwide left has long been prone to apologize for Latin America's authoritarian leftist regimes — but a younger generation's response to socialist Venezuela's electoral fraud is challenging that impulse.

COMMENTARY The vote to retain Chile's Pinochet-era constitution wasn't a vote to retain Pinochet. It was a vote to block the leftist overreach Pinochet exploited.

Two years ago, Chileans called — loudly — for a new, more progressive charter. But on Sunday they punted it — and issued Latin America's radical left a warning, too.

COMMENTARY The Mexican president's petulance is a reminder that Mambí's new owners can't afford to make a Spanish-language Fox a Spanish-language MSNBC.

COMMENTARY Even if Gustavo Petro wins Colombia's presidential race, Chile is a reminder that his leftist hubris could derail him — and his country's peace plan.

COMMENTARY: The Latin left's bromance with an Iranian accused of bombing a Jewish center helps U.S. conservatives' efforts to paint liberals as anti-Semitic.

COMMENTARY Socialists, a communist, a former guerrilla are presidential front-runners in South America thanks to conservative negligence and folly.