Lecciones de la izquierda en América Latina:

rupturas y continuidades en el siglo XXI

Abstract

This paper presents the axes of discussion that gave body to the tradition that about social change, tender the left in the Latin American region and the shape in which this slope of thought was transformed by the developmentalism crisis, the violence of authoritarian regimes and finally by the arrival of the neoliberalism. From this review it has been sought to identify the lines of continuity and rupture between the Latin American left speech and the actual elements in the reconfiguration of the political arena that came with the neoliberal crisis. In this sense, the current condition of the present Latin American left cannot be explained without recognize an articulated political discourse that has allowed it to have a social penetration, which although has a lot of new, also gathers the contributions of the classical left. This diffuse condition of the left, has allowed it to include wide sectors and move forward from the political electoral perspective that has characterized the region along the past decade.