[Cincinatus' Wife]

***In Bolivia and Peru, this change has been accompanied by violent protests. Elsewhere, it has meant the rise of new leaders like President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, a former labor leader born a peasant, and Lucio Gutiérrez in Ecuador, a former army colonel who led the coup that overthrew President Jamil Mahuad, a Harvard-educated favorite of the International Monetary Fund, in January 2000.

Mr. Gutiérrez was elected president in November after railing against traditional politicians and promising to cut poverty and scale back market reforms. He was supported by a powerful indigenous movement, Pachakutik, and inspired in part by another former army colonel and coup plotter, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.

Mr. Chávez, who introduced a new Constitution in Venezuela and is redirecting oil profits toward social programs, has taken the most aggressive tack.***

Fidel Castro – Cuba

Hugo Chavez – Venezuela

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Authors: By JUAN FORERO with LARRY ROHTER

[sarcasm]

And here you have the reason why the Mexican elite is engaging in ethnic cleansing of their native population through emigration.

[dennisw]

Castro is 100% Spanish as far as I know. Do you know what Chavez is?

[PGalt]

Interesting article, thanks for your post.

[Darheel]

"Latin America"

Read: "Indian America", the number of Italians in Central and South America is actually very small, and there's nothing "Latin" about Spaniards dominated by muslims for 500 years who conquered Indians like the Aztecs. Liberals do a poor job of defining their terms, but I'm not putting up with it anymore.