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W&L’s Ponce de Leon Interviewed in Recent Al-Jazeera Article The article highlights Latin American stories to look out for in 2020.

zponcedeleon W&L’s Ponce de Leon Interviewed in Recent Al-Jazeera ArticleZoila Ponce De León

Zoila Ponce de Leon, assistant professor of politics at Washington and Lee University, was recently interviewed in an Al-Jazeera piece titled “Latin America in 2020: Stories to watch.”

The article highlights developments that may change Latin American politics in 2020.

In her interview, Ponce de Leon discusses Peru’s political crisis saying, “Keiko Fujimori has been the strongest political figure that we’ve had in the last few years. The fact that the Popular Force is now struggling to gain even a 10 percent approval rating in recent polls should be a major cause of concern for the opposition and could create a vacuum for a more extreme candidate.”

Read the full article here.