The the Hello and

I'm Doug Henwood.

Today we'll hear from Theorio Franco's and the politics of Ecuador

as the new president is about to take office

and Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss take apart the philosophy behind the alt-right.

First, Ecuador. Beginning with the election of Hugo Chavez's president of Venezuela in 1999,

Latin America experienced a turn to the left

following the grim decades of the 1980s and 1990s.

By the middle of the last decade,

about two-thirds of Latin Americans

were living under leftish governments.

At decades end, however, things started souring in the pink tide is largely receded.

One place the pink tide is not yet receded, however, is Ecuador.

In February, Ecuador held elections to pick the successor to President Raphael Korea

who had served the maximum of two terms. The winner in two rounds of voting was

Lenin Moreno who'd served as Korea's vice president from 2007 through 2013.

The opposition cried fraud to little effect.

Here is Thea Rio Francoz, an assistant professor of political science at Providence College

to tell us more.

What do you make of these allegations of fraud?

Are they going to go anywhere?

I really don't see them going anywhere.

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