Maduro's Fortune: A Left-Leaning Latin America

A leftward-shifting political landscape will have profound consequences for bilateral relationships and, by extension, U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America. This is especially the case in U.S. policy toward the region's three undisputed dictatorships—Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. As the hullabaloo over the recent U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas highlighted, the ability to isolate and pressure the region's brutal dictatorships to induce change will be drastically diminished. Presidents in Mexico, Bolivia, and Honduras, among others,