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If populist movements in 1930s and 1940s Latin America had apparent fascist overtones and based themselves on authoritarian politics, as was the case of Vargas' Estado Novo dictatorship in Brazil (1937–1945), [16] or of some of Peron's openly expressed sympathies, [17] in the 1950s populism adapted—not without considerable unease from its ...
From the left, the pink tide spreading over Latin America was "prone to populism and authoritarianism". [296] Correa in Ecuador [297] and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and his regional allies [298] [192] used populism to achieve their dominance and later established authoritarian regimes when they were empowered. Such actions, Weyland argues ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Latin America; New Zealand; United States; Related topics. ... The following is a list of populist parties, ...
Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot (Spanish: Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano) is an essay by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner and Álvaro Vargas Llosa published in 1996. [1] The authors analyze Latin American history and the way of thinking of both the Latin American political elites and intellectuals.
The pink tide (Spanish: marea rosa; Portuguese: onda rosa; French: marée rose), or the turn to the left (Spanish: giro a la izquierda; Portuguese: virada à esquerda; French: tournant à gauche), is a political wave and turn towards left-wing governments in Latin America throughout the 21st century.
Macroeconomic populism is a term coined by Rudi Dornbusch and Sebastian Edwards in a 1990 paper. [1] The term refers to the policies by many Latin American administrations by which government spending and real wages increase in a non-sustainable way leading to inflation, then stagflation and ultimately an economic collapse that drops real wages to lower than they were before the populist ...
Kirchnerism is considered to be a part of the larger Pink Tide in Latin America - a rise of left-wing populist movements. [ 24 ] Initially, Kirchnerism has shown itself to be concerned with the defense of human rights , particularly in prosecuting those who committed human rights violations during the Dirty War and were later made immune from ...
Building on his earlier work, Laclau argued that the basis of populism lies in the creation of "empty signifiers": words and ideas that express a universal idea of justice, and symbolically structure the political environment. Against those who see populism as a threat to democracy, Laclau argued that it is an essential component of it. [11]