Smith, the Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies, is the author of "Democracy in Latin America: Political Chance in Comparative Perspective."
Listen to his lecture courtesy of VUCast, Vanderbilt's news network.
Peter Smith, a professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, discussed the resurgence of left-of-center political leaders in Latin America and the consequences for the United States in a March 23 lecture co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies and the Department of Political Science.
