Latin American Studies

PART 1 Populism Populism is a strongly nationalistic authoritarian form of politics, whose inspiration was sometimes drawn from Hitler and Mussolini’s meteoric rises to power [Faces of Latin America: 113-5]. It is based on the bringing together of workers and industrialists to erase class barriers, often with the common goal of opposing the policies of conservative landowners. Usually populism flourished in city and slum areas, the majority of which consist of workers and displaced landowners. …

…to corruption and a complete lack of governmental direction, the people of Latin America fall into cycles of distrust, depression and anger. The rulers’ have no true desire or ability to help them and will not allow self-help, letting the people shoulder the debts, and allowing them to slide deeper into a quagmire of hate and poverty, with no mental, social or economic hope of them pulling themselves out in the near fut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**