"The Latin American left is leaning to the center"

Authors:
José Alberto López Rafaschieri and Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net

The prestigious publication "The Christian Science Monitor" published an interview in which the journalist Sara Miller spoke with us about the Peruvian elections (click here to read it in full). Luis Alberto said to this news agency that since the arrival of Ortega to Nicaragua's presidency in 2007, no other wannabe Chavez has appeared in the region because the leftists are now betting on centrist positions. We had already expressed this idea on other occasions, implying that Humala will most likely follow the footsteps of leaders like Mauricio Funes, in El Salvador.

Luis also told "The Christian Science Monitor" that this was because, although Chavez's speech is attractive to some people, the failure of the XXI Century Socialism in matters such as inflation, insecurity and power generation had shown to the neighboring countries that chavism is not a good example to follow, which, coupled with falling oil revenues -less money to buy foreign loyalties-, had reduced his regional influence.

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