The matter is that (as the U.S.A have bipartidism between Liberal (democratics) and Conservative (republican) parties) you don't know what is a true left and you still call your liberals leftist while they aren't. Left is used in the rest of the world to refer communism and socialism. So the Democratic Party isn't really left, but center-right, while the republican party is far-right.
There is a trend in Latin America, all presidents are left-wing. Except Alvaro Uribe and Felipe Calderón. The president of El Salvador was also rightist but leftists won the last elections.
The only probably future right-wing president is in Chile, that country will have elections this or next year and the right-wing candidate is winning the elections.
There are some moderate socialist presidents: Panamá (Martin Torrijos), Brazil (Lula da Silva), Guatemala (Alvaro Colon), Chile (Michele Bachelet), Peru (Alan García) and Uruguay. There is a more radical left, called Bolivarianism, because they claim to support Simon Bolivar's ideals (However, Simon Bolivar was conservative): Nicaragua, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela and Cuba form this axis.
Colombia is he biggest ally of the USA in south america, but your new government does not support our country because of the problem mentioned above. Communist colombian leaders go to the USA to speak with the Democratic Party, saying that they are the left. What the Democratic leaders don't know is that those colombians that they talk to are communists and not like them.
The U.S.A is aiding Colombia in war against drug-dealing, but they have not seen that the real problem is poverty. Poverty is behind terrorism, poverty is behind drugs:
Imagine you are a poor teenager in Colombia, maybe your mother is a drunk and your father ¿? dissappeared? Your mother is disemployed. You don't have study. A very rich guy (druglord) tells you that if you kill a policeman, he will give US$500.000. What would you do?
So, if the people continue to be poor, they will accept populist leaders like Chavez and Colombia will end being the center of Chavez's empire. Yesterday in the news, the reporters showed that there are some stupid people creating the Colombian Socialist Bolivarian Party in the city of Cucuta, near the border with Venezuela.
I made a comparison between Chavez and Hitler in the Latin American section of the forum, in a thread called Colombia is not Fascist.
The US have not seen that while they are worrying in problems of the Middle East, their neighborhood is becoming the true enemy.
Russia and Iran have strong links to Chavez and his bolivarian circle that is taking over Latin America. I think the USA is taking care 100% of something they don't need to take care 100% but maybe 70%. See how terrorists are friends:
Al-Qaeda is an ally of Ahmadinejad and ETA.
Ahmadinejad is an ally of Chavez.
Chavez is an ally of Russia.
Chavez and ETA are allies of FARC.
FARC are enemies of Colombia.
Colombia is an ally of the USA and the EU.
The USA are an ally of Israel.
The EU are enemies of Al-Qaeda and ETA.
Israel is enemy of Palestine.
Palestine is an ally of Ahmadinejad.
The USA are an ally of Georgia.
Georgia is enemy of Russia.
Russia is an ally of Chavez and his bolivarian friends.
Do you understand what can happen there?