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Weekly Report - 30 May 2013 (WR-13-21)

Correa bucks regional trend by vowing to relinquish power

One of the biggest failings of the ‘progressive’ Left governments in Latin America is that for all the grand rhetoric of revolutions serving the people, they resemble the ‘old’ Left in Cuba in the sense that there is no hint of renewal at the top, meaning that in the eyes of history they could be adjudged to be personalist projects. Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) designated a successor in Nicolás Maduro only after his prognosis became irremediably grim; Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, who took office in 2006, has just won judicial backing for a creative interpretation of the constitution enabling him to seek re-election; the Kirchners have jealously guarded power in Argentina for a decade now. Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, however, was absolutely insistent during his inauguration on 24 May that this would be his last term in power.

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