
02 Jul 1947, Rome, Italy — Eva Duarte de Peron (1919-1952), also called Evita, was an actress before her 1945 marriage to populist Argentine dictator Juan Peron. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
by Federico Finchelstein and Fabián Bosoer
Authoritarian populism, long associated with Latin American regimes, is generally considered a thing of the past in Europe. But this view is misleading. While countries like Argentina and Venezuela have slowly begun to move away from the Kirchners’ brand of Peronist politics and Hugo Chávez’s cult of personality, a dangerous right-wing brand of populism is returning to Europe. Indeed, the rise of movements like Greece’s neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, and the violence and assassinations that have accompanied it, are far more worrying than the residual authoritarianism that pervades Latin American politics.
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December 20th, 2013
Is Fascism Returning to Europe?
by Federico Finchelstein and Fabián Bosoer Authoritarian populism, long associated […]
02 Jul 1947, Rome, Italy — Eva Duarte de Peron (1919-1952), also called Evita, was an actress before her 1945 marriage to populist Argentine dictator Juan Peron. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
by Federico Finchelstein and Fabián Bosoer
Authoritarian populism, long associated with Latin American regimes, is generally considered a thing of the past in Europe. But this view is misleading. While countries like Argentina and Venezuela have slowly begun to move away from the Kirchners’ brand of Peronist politics and Hugo Chávez’s cult of personality, a dangerous right-wing brand of populism is returning to Europe. Indeed, the rise of movements like Greece’s neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, and the violence and assassinations that have accompanied it, are far more worrying than the residual authoritarianism that pervades Latin American politics.
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