GOVT 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James Ensor, Oligarchy, Copei
4 Apr 2016
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Our third topic of discussion focused on populism and leftist movements across latin america, their impacts on society and reasons why they failed or were successful. The countries examined were argentina, brazil, chile, mexico, peru, Events across the region fueled each other, as was the case especially with the early infatuation with the cuban revolution. Argentina saw the rise of the strongest labor movement in the region correspond with the political ascendency of juan peron. While he spent 18 years in spain the governments in argentina were plagued by the fact that the most popular political party, peronists, was not allowed to run candidates. He was deposed again in 1975 and the country descended into a dark period of military repression. Brazil finally broke with the rule of parties loyal to getulio vargas in 1960. When his successor, janio quadros, was unable to govern effectively due to his alienation of other politicians, the populist varguista joao goulart took power.
