Repudiation of the Left in Latin America.

For a while it looked like the map of South America would get to be all red. Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil had all elected Leftists bent on Socialism. After a host of economic disasters, a correction of sorts is setting in.

Argentina has elected a non Peronist and Dilma Roussef of Brazil has been impeached.

But it is Venezuela that is undergoing the biggest transition. The country had elected an Indian President (Hugo Chavez) who was an outright Communist and a follower and admirer of Fidel Castro. Chavez had nationalized industries and predictably screwed up agriculture. He was re-elected until he died of cancer, to be succeeded by his handpicked VP Maduro. The latter had continued Chavez's policies and Venezuela's plight got worse and worse.

Maduro lost the latest election. Not only that, but the opposition had gotten a 2/3 vote. That means that the new legislature can throw out the Leftist Supreme Court and even impeach Maduro, who keeps repeating that he will not allow the Chavez changes to be overturned.

Will Veneziela have a civil war? Entirely possible. The country's armed forces are riddled with Communists.