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BBC's correspondent Will Grant presents book on populism in Latin America

Bogota, Jan 18 (EFE).- Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega, Rafael Correa and Fidel Castro are leaders in the history of Latin America who have much in common. They have inspired —and still inspire— thousands of people on the continent. They led what was called the so-called Pink Tide, a historical moment at the beginning of the 21st century where the left ruled in part of Latin America and imposed a new path to the future, moving away from the long shadow of the United States. For Will Grant, a renowned BBC's correspondent in Latin America since 2007, those years, from the rise to power of Chavez in 1999 to the death of Castro in 2016, a new way of doing politics with a strong populist component emerged and its legacy has inspired to leaders as distant and different as Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump. This is how Grant reveals it in a voluminous and entertaining book, which has been published in the United Kingdom by the publisher "Head of Zeus" and entitled "Populista! The Rise of Latin America's Twenty-first Century Strongman".SOUNDBITES OF WILL GRANT, BBC'S CORRESPONDENT IN LATIN AMERICA.