Factores obstructivos al ascenso de las izquierdas en América Latina: paralelismos entre Perú y Colombia

This article seeks through the favorable factors to the “ the left turn” that happened in Latin America, between 1998 and 2010, through two successful cases: Brazil and Uruguay, in order to explain the cases of Peru and Colombia, where the democratic left did not rise to the presidential power during this same period. Its purpose is to clarify why this was so despite the fact that these last two countries were conditioned by identical or similar factors to those that conditioned the countries where the democratic left was effective in reaching presidential power. This article does not seek to start from the determination according to which all Latin American countries had to go through the “left turn”, but to show what were the factors that hindered the arrival to the left and that separate these two countries: Peru and Colombia from the rest of the region while identifying them through their similarities.