Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos is Professor of Latin American Studies at the Federal University of São Paulo. He is the author of Origins of Radical Thought and Politics in Latin America (UNICAMP, 2016) and Beyond PT: The crisis of Brazilian left in Latin American perspective (Elefante, 2016).

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• About Power and Impotence Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Venezuelan Revolution: Underdevelopment despite an Abundance of Foreign Exchange 2 Conciliation and Order under 'Lulaism ' in Brazil 3 Kirchnerism and Impasses of the Bourgeois Way in Argentina 4 The Process of Change in Bolivia: Creative or Destructive Tensions? 5 Ecology versus Capitalism: Dilemmas of the Citizen Revolution in Ecuador 6 The Deposition of Lugo in Paraguay and the Brasiguayo Question 7 Brazil and the Political Economy of South American Integration 8 Chile and the Political Economy of the Real Neoliberalism 9 Perversion and Trauma: Impasses of Contemporary Peruvian Politics 10 War and Peace in Colombia in Historical Perspective 11 Where is the Cuban Revolution Going? Dilemmas of Primitive Socialism Conclusion Bibliography Index