Abstract

MORENO VELADOR, Octavio Humberto  and  FIGUEROA IBARRA, Carlos Alberto. El miedo al populista latinoamericano del siglo XXI. Pap. trab. - Cent. Estud. Interdiscip. Etnolingüíst. Antropol. Soc. [online]. 2016, n.31, pp.38-53. ISSN 1852-4508.

This article presents a critical review about the perspectives that describes Latin American populism as a political, social and economic threat. In an extensive use of the concept of populism, the vulgar anti-populist literature  dismisses the differences between the  classic populism and the Latin American current national-popular process.  It has created  an image of populism as synonymous  of corruption, demagogy and  political irresponsibility and this image has been wide spread through the media. In the scholar level, populism has been conceived as  leadership style and  discursive use. We contend that for the comprehension of the contemporary anti-populism, it is necessary to think about it through the criticism to the principles of the neoliberal ideology, among them the procedural democracy that it defends. These principles transformed in unique thought has converted  the populism into the great "other" in the Latin American politics. Even more, the populism "otherness" is based in the otherness of the communism during the cold war.

Keywords : Fear; Populism; Democracy; Neoliberalism.

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