Francesco Segoni Within just a few years, South America’s political map has changed radically. After the cycle of the so-called second pink tide, inaugurated by Gabriel Boric’s victory in Chile (2021), Gustavo Petro’s in Colombia (2022) and culminating in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s return in Brazil (2022), the continent has done an about-face, at least electorally. Between 2025 and 2026, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Colombia all chose centre-right or right-wing governments, falling in line with Daniel Noboa’s Ecuador and Javier Milei’s Argentina, the pioneers of this reversal. ...