right wing governments in latin america

… What the Right Wing in Latin America Means by Democracy Is Violence by Vijay Prashad. "When the money ran out, when commodity prices dipped and populist leaders were not able to deliver anymore, Latin America looked to the other side," Trinkunas says. Venezuelan firebrand Hugo Chávez was swept into power in 1999, with a socialist, anti-U.S. ideology that inspired many of his peers in the region. The far right is on the rise not only in Brazil but across Latin America — driven by the middle class that left-wing governments helped create. A March 2016 demonstration calling for the ouster of Brazil’s then-president, Dilma Rousseff. In the last two years alone, right-wing candidates have ascended to the presidency in Brazil, Argentina, and, last month, Chile. Only eleven years earlier, their left-wing predecessors had shattered Washington’s dream of a Free Trade Area of the Americas. Abstract. Below are seven of the worst fascist regimes in Latin America that the U.S. enthusiastically supported. You could divide them into “big government” right-wingers and “small government” right-wingers. It was a curious exchange. As others have noted, there are different ways of describing “right-wing”. The Estado Novo in Portugal was a right-wing dictatorship which was corporatist in nature. In 2009, as the American Convention on Human Rights turned forty, left-wing governments ruled in almost all Latin American countries. Is this revival a harbinger of a progressive renaissance or a throwback to failed experiments? 1. The late 1990s and early 2000s was a time of triumph for Latin America's leftists. By 2009, eight South American countries and two Central American nations had elected left-wing governments. The democratization wave that began in the late 1980s had produced a seemingly hegemonic turn to the left — the so-called “Pink Tide.” The new right-wing governments of the biggest economies of South America — Brazil and Argentina — clamored for “free trade” agreements with the United States. What the right wing in Latin America means by democracy is violence There is a rapid and disturbing attack on the political fabric of Bolivia --Shares. Chile: Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s Military Junta, 1973-1990. This is taking place as the right in Latin America is staging a stunning comeback after a long sojourn in the political wilderness. None of the right-wing governments are interested in addressing this fundamental problem for the hemisphere. A new wind is sweeping Latin America. Progressive governments in Argentina, Venezuela and Brazil have suffered severe blows in less than a year. Democracy is at risk in Latin America and the far right is moving in – here’s how it went wrong for the left The stakes are clear: Latin American people believe that left-wing governments were good at distributing the wealth generated in the years of the fatty cows, but they have yet to be convinced that right-wing governments can provide solutions in the years of skinny cows. Corruption, and the perception of it, erodes confidence in government and leaves behind it a political vacuum.