“Jorge Castañeda is the world’s foremost analyst of the Latin American left; this book provides thought-provoking new perspectives on the momentous issues raised in his classic, Utopia Unarmed. Castañeda and Morales team with outstanding Latin American scholars to show the tremendous diversity of the Latin American left today- social democratic, populist, otherwise. They highlight the ascendance of the left, but also the tremendous challenges before it; they perceive a left that is fraught with contradictions; and that, to that date, has achieved at best only a mixed record in the fight against poverty and inequality.”–Cynthia McClintock, George Washington University