Introduction

Nicholas Danforth sat down with three leading experts on Latin America to talk about recent developments in broader trends across the region. Augustina Sheruti, Adam Isaacson and Anya Prusa joined us for this week's episode of The War on the Rocks podcast. We're back to the 2000s where the left dominated the political arena in most countries in Latin America. Second trend is democratic backsliding in big countries and small ones such as Central American countries like Nicaragua. And finally, the third trend which I see also related to the second one is the increasing militarization inLatin America.