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Caudillaje

Week 5: Caudillos vs the Nation State

For this week’s blogpost, I’m going to write based on the questions posed in the lecture. These were the three questions: Why was post-independence Latin America such fertile ground for caudillos? Why were caudillos especially popular among the poor and powerless? Does even Echeverría show them some grudging respect? At this point in the 19thContinue reading “Week 5: Caudillos vs the Nation State”

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with Caudillaje, caudillos, Echeverría

Week Nine: Power to the People

Contrasting the political leaders who favoured the middle-class or elites, populist leaders appeal to the working class. These people often felt forgotten by repressive regimes and were empowered by leaders who respected them. Dawson argues that populism’s massive influence in Latin America came about at a time of social and technological change that inspired populists […]

Posted in Blogs, Week 9 | Tagged with Argentina, Caudillaje, eva duarte, Evita, industrialisation, juan domingo perón, media, Peronism, populism, radio

Week Eleven

I think one of the most interesting things to me about the Sendero Luminoso is their direct condemnation of democracy. I personally…

Posted in Blogs, Week 11 | Tagged with Caudillaje, caudillo, democracy, Dirty Wars, liberalism, Sendero Luminoso, The Terror

Week Five

I was not surprised to read that there was a lot of violence and conflict in post-independence Latin America, because…

Posted in Blogs, Week 5 | Tagged with Caudillaje, caudillos, clientelism, ethnocentrism, ideologies, independence, liberalism

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