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<span><span>This timely book explores the unique challenges facing the left in Latin America today. The contributors offer clear and comprehensive assessments of the difficult conditions and conflicting forces that have brought to power the current leftist regimes in Latin American and the Caribbean and are shaping their development. With its balanced and thorough assessment, this study will provide readers with a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of the political, economic, and sociocultural reality of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean.</span></span>

<span><span>Foreword: The Global Significance of Latin America's New Radical Left<br></span><span>William I. Robinson</span><span><br>Introduction: Complexities of the Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Power<br></span><span>Steve Ellner</span><span><br>Part I: Theoretical, Historical and International Background <br>Chapter 1: The Radical Left's Turbulent Transitions: An Overview<br></span><span>Roger Burbach</span><span><br>Chapter 2: Brief Hypotheses on the State, Democracy, and Revolution in Latin America Today<br></span><span>Diana Raby</span><span><br>Chapter 3: Institutional Conflict and the Bolivarian Revolution: Venezuela’s Negotiation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas <br></span><span>Marcel Nelson</span><span><br>Part II: The Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Power in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador <br>Chapter 4: Social and Political Diversity and the Democratic Road to Change in Venezuela<br></span><span>Steve Ellner</span><span><br>Chapter 5: “Bad Left Government” versus “Good Left Social Movements”? Creative Tensions within Bolivia’s Process of Change<br></span><span>Federico Fuentes</span><span><br>Chapter 6: Rafael Correa and Social Movements in Ecuador<br></span><span>Marc Becker</span><span><br>Part III: Influences of the Twenty-First-Century Radical Left in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Cuba<br>Chapter 7: The Twenty-First-Century Road to Socialism in El Salvador and Nicaragua: Making Sense of Apparent Paradoxes<br></span><span>Hector Perla Jr. and Héctor M. Cruz-Feliciano</span><span><br>Chapter 8: Cuba’s New Socialism: Different Visions Shaping Current Changes<br></span><span>Camila Piñeiro Harnecker</span><span><br>Part IV: Economy, Society, and Media<br>Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Social Production Companies in Venezuela<br></span><span>Thomas Purcell</span><span><br>Chapter 10: Constituent Moments, Constitutional Processes: Social Movements and the New Latin American Left<br></span><span>George Ciccariello-Maher</span><span><br>Chapter 11: The Good, the Bad, and the Benevolent Interventionist: U.S. Press and Intellectual Distortions of the Latin American Left<br></span><span>Kevin Young</span><span><br>Chapter 12: Concluding Observations: The Twenty-First-Century Radical Left and the Latin American Road to Change <br></span><span>Steve Ellner</span></span>

<span><span>Steve Ellner </span><span>is professor at the Universidad de Oriente, Anzoátegui Campus, Venezuela.</span></span>

<span><span>Discusses challenges facing the radical left not only from movements to its right but also those to its left</span></span>