Welcome listeners to a special bonus episode of No Your Enemy.

I'm Sam Edler-Bell, and I'm here without my great friend, Matthew Sittman, because he's

busy doing something else.

What could be more important than chatting with his great friend?

I don't know.

But luckily, I was joined earlier this week by two brilliant people, Theorio Franco's and

David Adler, no relation, to discuss something near and dear to my heart, the return of the

Latin American left.

Hope for the American left is at a fairly low ebb at the moment as you all might have

noticed, but our counterparts in Latin America are on the march.

They're succeeding at beating back repressive right wing governments across Central and

South America.

And so I had these two scholars on to ask what we can learn from them, and also give

an extremely volatile global conditions and the continued role of the U.S. in defending

the interests of capital in the region.

What can these left wing governments hope to accomplish?

Thea and David were great, perfect pair for helping to answer these questions, and I'll

just give you their bio, Theorio Franco's is a Carnegie fellow, an associate professor

of political science at Providence College and the author of Resource Radicals, from

Petro Nationalism to Post Extractivism in Ecuador.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy in

the Guardian, and she's a brilliant scholar.

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