Trends In Latin America

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Latin America before this recent trend was seen as making economic progress and having improved democratic governance by many of the centrist governments. Although the nation has recently enjoyed its best two years of growth in a long time, times have changed and it seems Latin America has noticed this change. In Venezuela, all leaders, parties or movements that have been successful over the past eight years are generally labeled as “leftist.” Countries of Latin America also showed this trend, Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia all are a part of this leftist wave that has overtaken the nation. The reason for these trends aren’t difficult to recognize. The first reason was recognized as the fall of the soviet union, which helped promote the Latin American

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