The Pink Tide is used in contemporary 21st-century political analysis that refers to turn to the left, the left-wing government or left-leaning party have been in power in Latin America after the consecutive elections of Hugo Chávez in 1998 in Venezuela and Lula da Silva in Brazil. The Pink Tide is a reference to the nature of these political movements as they are not communists (red) but some more moderate version of the left (pink).
