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The first decade of the twenty-first century was dubbed a new dawn for Latin America (Yates and Bakker 2013). Raphael Correa, like Evo Morales in Bolivia, was elected in the wake of anti-neoliberal sentiment that emerged from the structural adjustment monetary policies of the 1990s. Correa, like Morales, pledged a form of “communitarian socialism.” Escobar (2010), resonating with many other commentators, wrote that this was the “end of the long neoliberal night” and, as noted by Yates and Bakker, many scholars (Hammond 2003; Munck 2003; French and Fortes 2005) – echoing alter-globalization activists from the early days of this post-neoliberal trend...