Insurgent and Terrorist Groups in Latin America
Abstract
Compared with Africa or Asia, Latin America has reached a far higher degree of political sophistication and has developed closer ties with West European and North American ideological and intellectual traditions. This has historically been true of ideological currents on both the Right and the Left. Fascism had some imitators in Latin America during and immediately after World War II, and at least two of them, Getulio Vargas in Brazil and Juan Peron in Argentina, were still in power in the 1950s, when European fascism was intellectually and politically in complete decline outside of the Iberian Peninsula. The strength of the Spanish and Portuguese fascists helps to account for the survival of their epigones in South America, considering the linguistic, cultural, and historical ties between the two regions. On the other hand, the fact that fascism took root in South America later than in Europe reflects the common Latin American pattern of importing European ideas only after a few years or even decades n delay. The same pattern can be seen in the case of the ideologies of the Left, with the difference that the latter were older than the former, and therefore appeared in Latin America earlier.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 20, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA150341
Entities
People
- Michael S. Radu