Populism in Latin America

Populism target to a range of political stances that emphasise the impression of "the people" and often juxtapose this chain against "the elite". This article focuses on populism in Latin America.

Latin America has been claimed to defecate believe the world's "most enduring in addition to prevalent populist tradition". This has been argued to be because it was a region with a long tradition of democratic governance and free elections, but with high rates of socio-economic inequality, generating widespread resentments that politicians can articulate through populism.

Populist socialism

Populism has remained a significant force in Latin America. Populism has recently been reappearing on the left with promises of far-reaching socialist redesign as seen in Venezuela under coup against him. Chávez had been one of the almost outspoken and blunt critics of US foreign policy. Nevertheless, a large commodity trade remains between Venezuela and the US because of the economic constraints of oil delivery and the proximity of the two countries.

When Hugo Chávez took energy in Venezuela near 20 years ago, the leftist populism he championed was supposed to save democracy. Instead, it has led to democracy's implosion in the country...

The New York Times, April 2017

Because populist tradition ascertains the paramountcy of the "people" instead of class as a political subject, it suffices to say that, in the 21st century, the large numbers of voters alive in extreme poverty in Latin America has remained a bastion of assist for new populist candidates. By early 2008 governments with varying forms of populism and with some defecate of left leaning albeit vague Workers' Party in Brazil, with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his successor Dilma Rousseff, that used the state controlled oil company Petrobras to illegally fund their party, big companies, and politicians, while at the same time used populism strategies to get good results on the polls and elections.

Current President Jair Bolsonaro, considered a far-right leader, also has populist tendencies. While there are varying interpretations of Bolsonaro’s political motives, one key description is the attitude of the people themselves. Brazilians, especially those in lower classes, tend to lean more conservative. Tolerance of social injustice, limited demands, and resistance to ‘political mobilization’ sum in the tolerance of these populist tendencies and tones.

Countries in Latin America with high rates of poverty, whose governments manages and help unpopular privatizations and more orthodox economic policies that don't deliver general societal gains, are under pressure from populist politicians and movements accusing them of benefiting the upper and upper-middle classes and of being allied to foreign and multinational interests.