\n<\/p>\n
The 21st-century wave of left-wing leaders triggered a US response, culminating in the 2026 capture of Venezuela\u2019s President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n
Populism, foreign intervention, and fierce internal struggles: this concluding episode sees 21st-century power struggles transform Latin America. It follows the \u201cpink tide\u201d from Hugo Chavez\u2019s 1998 victory in Venezuela through new leaders like Brazil\u2019s Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva and Bolivia\u2019s Evo Morales to the arrival of a new kind of Argentinian woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. This was an era of corruption scandals, drug-trafficking, migration crises, and dramatic turns such as Brazil\u2019s polarising swing from Lula to Jair Bolsonaro and back again. It was also a new age of United States interference, from the US\u2019s backing of Alvaro Uribe\u2019s hardline strategies in Colombia to its January 2026 attack on Venezuela and its abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n
Now, as Chinese influence grows and Washington\u2019s rhetoric hardens, answers to the question \u201cWhat path lies ahead for Latin America?\u201d must also consider the pressures on democracy exerted by autocrats, militias, and resurgent authoritarian populism.<\/p>\n
Bringing together first-hand testimony, expert insight, and rare archives, this film reflects on how Latin America\u2019s destiny seems bound to US ambition \u2013 yet driven by its own immensely complicated politics of survival, dreams of justice and stability, and peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Published On 23 Feb 2026<\/span>23 Feb 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n