Cuba and Brazil had bigger slave populations than the South, at around 40 percent; slaves were maybe 34-35 percent of the population in the South. But nevertheless, the South is far more focused on slavery than Brazil or Cuba were. . ..…

There is perhaps a greater chance for deepening rot in the center-left governments on the basis of an internal mutation toward neoliberalism; that is, an extension of the evolution we are beginning to see today above all, but not exclusively, in Brazil. Here, we repeat, the key will be what happens..…

The timing of the formation of the Communist parties of Latin America Mexico, 1919 Argentina, 1920 Uruguay, 1921 Chile, 1922 Brazil, 1921 Cuba, 1925 .. ..…