Negotiating the local: The Latin American "Pink Tide" or what's left for the left?

The results of recent electoral processes in Latin America reflect a political shift toward the left. This article analyzes the transformations that, within the context of the disappearance of socialism in Eastern Europe and the consolidation of globalization, experience this new left which differentiates itself from the left associated with the national liberation movements of the 1970s and 1980s. In the present scenario, the paradigms of the State, the Nation, and the National, now considered obsolete by postmodernist theories, acquire new meanings that reconceptualize the State as a negotiation space and the Nation as a place where one seeks a global insertion as much as a regional integration. From this perspective, local negotiations result in a key component in articulating the transnational dynamics and elements of Latin America.