Editor's note

After a decade of progressive leadership across Latin America, the region has begun tacking rightward. Both Brazil and Argentina put conservative leaders into office in 2016, Chile's Socialist government is deeply unpopular, and Venezuela's political crisis continues to worsen.

But suddenly, in Chile, a new face of the left has emerged: outsider politician Alejandro Guillier, whose unexpected rise in the polls has made him a top contender for the country's November 2017 presidential election. Can this former TV news anchorman revive the Latin American left?

Catesby Holmes

Global Commissioning Editor

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Senator Alejandro Guillier inside the Chilean congress in Valparaiso, Chile. Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters

Can a Chilean outsider revive Latin America's ailing left?

Cristóbal Bellolio, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Outsider Alejandro Guillier's sudden rise in the polls has invigorated Chilean politics and revived the hopes of progressives across the region.

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