Balaguer fled to exile in New York City after Trujillo's death, which unleashed a bloody, years-long battle between loyalist Dominican generals and leftists inspired by Fidel Castro's Cuba.
The speech was so rousingly leftist that it inspired Aaron Copland to compose "Fanfare for the Common Man".
But Mr Gott also sees Mr Chavez as the heir to the leftist guerrillas who, inspired by the Cuban revolution, staged ineffectual rebellions in Venezuela in the 1960s (and some of whom are now among the president's political lieutenants).That makes Mr Chavez an anachronism.
A supporter of the revolution that ousted the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal, the German leftist Thomas Harlan was inspired by the Portuguese land reform movement to make this documentary on efforts to turn over the large estate of Torre Bela to local workers.
The book sparked much debate in leftist circles and inspired more aggressive tactics within the anti-globalization movement in the following few years.
As Robby Soave has pointed out in an article titled "Trump Won Because Leftist Political Correctness Inspired a Terrifying Backlash" published in 'Reason' magazine, votes for President Trump were not votes for his policies, but for challenging the censors of political correctness and speaking his mind.
Like many young leftists, he was inspired by Mohamed ElBaradei, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector who challenged the idea that political change needed to await Mr. Mubarak's death.
Mr Aristide, a leftist former priest, once inspired much hope in a country with a long history of misrule.
Rivera did exactly that by turning to indigenous pre-Columbian works to comment on his homeland's emergence in the modern age, and to promote pan-Americanism inspired by leftist ideas of the era.
After a career in the Socialist Party, where he rose to become minister of vocational education under Lionel Jospin, he broke with it in 2008 to form the Left Party, which is inspired by leftist movements in Latin America and France's own long history of radicalism.
Over the past decade, the guerrillas, originally inspired by leftist doctrine, have made some ideological compromises to finance the war effort.
