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Enrique ter Horst

Enrique ter Horst is a Venezuelan lawyer and political analyst. He is assistant to the UN Secretary General, and ran the peace-keeping operations in El Salvador. In Haiti, he was the UN deputy commissioner for Human Rights.

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“Turning left, but down which road?”

by Enrique ter Horst

31 January 2006

The election on Sunday of Michelle Bachelet, less than a month after that of Evo Morales, seems that Latin America has unexpectedly moved to the left. Actually, two left wings coexist in Latin America, as shown by the Venezuelan Teodoro Petkoff, possible presidential candidate in December. (...)