Is Colombia Awakening from its Anti-Working Class Nightmare?

The victory last month of leftwing President Gustavo Petro in Colombia upturned assumptions about the possibilities of the ‘new Pink Tide’ in Latin America. The country has long been a bastion of capitalist exploitation and the authoritarian right.

Alice Gray spoke to Dr Laura Correa Ochoa, a research fellow at Rice University and an expert on Columbian social movements about the past, present, opportunities and dangers of this new front in the struggle for Latin America.