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The 25 events that marked Latin America’s last 25 years
Argentine savers protested the corralito — the government’s freeze on bank withdrawals — outside BankBoston’s headquarters in Buenos Aires. Photo: Barcex/WikiCommons
The year is coming to an end, and political currents are shifting once again in Latin America. In a century that started with the so-called “pink tide” of left-leaning governments, the continent is swinging back to the right in many ways, as The Brazilian Report long anticipated.
To help readers understand these changing eras, we compiled a list of the most important events in the region each year since the dawn of the millennium, which illustrate how the progressive sentiment of the 2000s turned into right-wing discontent in recent years — albeit with many nuances and exceptions.
The 2000s started with Peru’s right-wing president-turned-dictator Alberto Fujimori fleeing to Japan, amid massive discredit for electoral fraud, espionage and violence against the opposition.
One year later, Argentina saw the end of its neoliberal era with its worst-ever economic crisis, including a bank run where 1 million people saw their life savings frozen and then confiscated — the infamous 2001 Corralito…
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