Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century edited by Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson
Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century edited by Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson
Legend has it that on his deathbed, Juan Domingo Perón, the former President of Argentina, uttered a curse condemning any would-be biographer to dedicate his or her career to defining populism. Or perhaps the curse was issued on the lost page of the late Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas’ suicide note, or slipped in among the bills in an envelope passed surreptitiously by Alberto Fujimori to some Peruvian legislator, or whispered by the recently deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez into the ear of his successor, Nicolás Maduro.
No matter. Whoever first uttered the curse, it...
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