If one reads current press reports and academic analysis on Latin America, the prevailing opinion seems to be that the left is making a comeback. The general movement toward the left in Latin America does not represent a change in ideology; instead, it represents a sentiment of dissatisfaction among voters caused by insufficient economic growth and the systematic failure of traditional institutions of representative democracy to ensure a higher standard of living for everyone. Democracy so far has been formally preserved as candidates for any major elected post have been reluctant to challenge democratic principles openly. But populist leaders are now gaining enough strength to directly confront the rule of law. For this reason, populism is a real threat to freedom in Latin America toda...
John D. Negroponte said yesterday that one of his priorities if confirmed as deputy secretary of state will be countering the rise of "radical populism" and anti-Americanism in Latin America championed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Bush administration officials said Mr. Negroponte, a former ambassador to Mexico and Honduras, is expected to re-energize Washington's policies in the Western Hemisphere, to which the administration has been accused of not paying enough attention.
This paper presents a comparative study of economic freedom in five groups of countries: Free, Mostly Free, Islamic, Latin American, and a subset of EU member countries. The study includes 103 countries, and uses data from the 2007 Index of Economic Freedom. The paper tests for the statistical significance of the difference between group means for each of ten measures of economic freedom and for the overall freedom score. The empirical evidence shows that the Islamic countries have significantly less economic freedom than the other groups, and that they are the only group with declining economic freedom in the last 13 years.
... (1991) show that after every episode of populism in Latin America, real wages were lower man they w...
[...] writes Pankaj Ghemawat, Professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration, in Foreign Policy. In terms of economic outcomes, the number of countries - in Latin America, coastal Africa, and the former Soviet Union - that have dropped out of the "convergence club" (defined in terms of narrowing productivity and structural gaps visa-vis the advanced industrialized countries) is at least as impressive as the number of countries that have joined the club.
... is an unmistakable swing toward neo-populism across much of Latin America. In terms of economic...
According to this theory, the "radical populism" of Chavez and his close allies, including Zelaya, represent a threat to U.S. interests; they must therefore be contained. According to Reiss, the international drug control apparatus is not a neutral "enforcement" tool but a deeply political project that not only "indefinitely guarantees U.S. military influence in a particular region" but also promotes "certain networks of drug production and consumption" that are classed as legal.
... OBAMA WAS UPFRONT ABOUT HIS POSITIONS on Latin America. He said pointblank that he would maintain...
The world is also watching the rise of "new leftist" leaders, such as the strong-willed, if somewhat eccentric Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the embattled indigenous spokesman Evo Morales of Bolivia, who are not only preaching their ideas of a socialist polity, but putting it into action in the form of constitutional amendments and social programs. Most of Latin America by now has abandoned Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI)-based economic policies and has become more open and export-oriented, relentlessly following the neo-liberal strategies recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
... qualities also closely resemble those of populism, which also aims to bring improved living standard...
... Grif and I, for all the support that the American business community is given our government as we s... And it looks like populism -- left- wing populism is on the rise in Latin Ame...
...'s on-again, off-again development, populism and political instability have been frequent respo...
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