Santiago Anria is assistant professor of political science and Latin American studies at Dickinson College. He received his Ph.D in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A native of Argentina, he has lived in Canada, Bolivia, and the United States. He is the author of When Movements Become Parties: The Bolivian MAS in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series, 2018).
Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay will all hold presidential elections in October. And, for now, leftists are strong contenders in all three countries. This is a somewhat unexpected development. Beginning in…