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This volume examines a central conundrum of Latin American
politics. How is that the triumph of neoliberal-inspired economic
restructuring in the 1980s and 90s did not cause the political
demise of populist movements? What is remarkable, as these scholars
show, is that Latin American populist parties, which had long been
associated with statist, quasi-Keynesian, even demagogic economic
policies, have survived the transition to the much harsher era of
free markets, privatisation, unemployment and increasing
inequality. And without apparently losing their political
popularity, in contrast both to the far left and traditional
oligarchic parties. Indeed Latin American populist forces seem to
have made neoliberalism their own. The Editors have carefully
chosen from South and Central America a representative set of
countries through which to explore this phenomenon - Argentina,
Chile, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
What emerges is an up-to-date, nuanced modern political history of
Latin America which does full justice to the distinctive political
paths of each country while at the same time making clear the
significant extent to which the region's populist tradition as a
whole has adapted to the new economic realities. This is in marked
contrast to the very different political trajectories of Africa and
Asia in the past two decades.
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