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Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman

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Availability:In StockContributor:Will GrantPublish date:2022-05-01Pages:512
Language:EnglishPublisher:Apollo Publishing InternationalISBN-13:9781789543971ISBN-10:1789543975UPC:9781789543971Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Political Ideologies, Latin AmericaBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin American, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:7.72 x 5.12 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCMTXTNHNB

'An ambitious, riveting and essential book that has much to teach us about the recent history of this region, and about the human impulse towards populism that continues to shape the world' Ben Rhodes, bestselling author of The World As It Is
'A REVOLUTION IS A STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.' FIDEL CASTRO

For more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the politics of Latin America. His towering political influence still looms over the region today.

The swing to the Left in Latin America, known as the 'Pink Tide', was the most important political movement in the Western Hemisphere in the 21st century. It involved some of the biggest, most colourful and most controversial characters in Latin America for decades, leaders who would leave an indelible mark on their nations and who were adored and reviled in equal measure.

Parties became secondary to individual leaders and populism reigned from Venezuela to Brazil, from Central America to the Caribbean, financed by a spike in commodity prices and the oil-backed largesse of Venezuela's charismatic socialist president, Hugo Chávez.

Yet within a decade and a half, it was all over. Today, this wave of populism has left the Americas in the hands of some of the most authoritarian and dangerous leaders since the military dictatorships of the 1970s.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Apollo Publishing InternationalISBN-13:9781789543971ISBN-10:1789543975UPC:9781789543971Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Political Ideologies, Latin AmericaBook Topic:Caribbean & Latin American, Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismSize:7.72 x 5.12 x 1.50 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCMTXTNHNB

Will Grant is one of the UK's leading broadcast journalists on Latin American affairs. He has been a BBC correspondent in Latin America since 2007 with successive deployments to Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba. Across his career, he has been responsible for covering the region from Patagonia to the Rio Grande and has travelled to every part of the continent in that time. He is currently based in Havana and Mexico City.
Will Grant is one of the UK's leading broadcast journalists on Latin American affairs. He has been a BBC correspondent in Latin America since 2007 with successive deployments to Venezuela, Mexico and Cuba. Across his career, he has been responsible for covering the region from Patagonia to the Rio Grande and has travelled to every part of the continent in that time. He is currently based in Havana and Mexico City.


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