Latin America’s destituent impasse

This intervention offers a series of preliminary analytical arguments on the current Latin American political conjuncture. It argues that the period of progressive hegemony that characterized Latin America in the first decade and a half of this century has been succeeded by a much more volatile political period of ‘desitituent impasse’. The new era is marked by fragmentation and ephemerality, above all, but with a built-in, tendential advantage for the far-right, and novel structural challenges of global stagnation and inter-imperial rivalry for those new left and centrist-populist experiments that persist.