Taking Stock of the Second Pink TideRight-wing lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella will be inaugurated as Colombia’s president on Friday. By the end of the first pink tide, South American governments were cooperating regionally on health, infrastructure, and conflict resolution. That political shift gave rise to the second pink tide. Latin America’s second pink tide has proved to be much shorter-lived than the first. Still, there are signs that the latest push for regional infrastructure may outlast the second pink tide itself.