A Populist in Your Future
A Populist in Your Future
“Venezuela has changed
forever.”
Hugo Chavez
By: Erreh Svaia
Yes, it's
disgrace that on one of president’s Enrique Pe帽a recent speeches
he attacks so vehemently the current rise of populism within the country, it’s
ironic, yes, given the fact that Enrique's political party, the PRI, almost
took Peronism one man messianic approach and turned it into a while
institution, and although populists like Andres Manuel Lopez and Jaime
Rodriguez brand of old school populism is dangerous, so is the PRI
"institutionalized" take on it, as we are stuck between a rock, and a
hard place.
Easy and magical answers always have a big appeal and "promising doesn't impoverish, but accomplishing those promises could kill you" or so that said, as Alexis Tsipras, who recently gave us a big lesson in populism, might know, populism appeal gets a boost in the middle of crisis, when population becomes desperate and our alarms for disaster obscures our capacity of reasoning.
Even though populism has been known to exist since the days of Julius Caesar, in the age of the Roman Empire, it became a powerful tool during Mussolini fascist regime in Italy, it inspired Domingo Peron in Argentina and went into a weird transformation from being right wing oriented, to be adopted by the left after the collapse of the USSR, when soviet financial backing ended and Marxist Leninist and Maoist guerrillas lost its principal benefactor, guerrillas had to look for another way of taking power instead of guns, so the political route was taken, embracing populism as one of its most useful tool.
It was America, because of its huge social and economic inequities, the place where actual populism (disguised as Socialismo del Siglo XXI) had its biggest success, thanks to the old Soviet-Cuban association, almost transforming the region into the next USSR, with socialist governments established in quick progression in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Venezuela, Lenin's take on Marxism, set on a group of under developed countries (becoming a Union in order to increase its power and influence) instead of Marx original thesis of developing it in a an already developed nation (as the UK or Germany, as Marx originally envisioned), almost succeeds, but it was latter derailed by the missteps that happened in Venezuela and Argentina mainly.
In Mexico populism is slowly starting to grow once again outside the system, yes, it’s a world tendency that blossomed thanks to the acute crisis of 2008, a crisis that the world still has to overcome, we have seen the rise and fall of Andres Manuel Lopez, a man to similar to the late Hugo Chavez, with a populist approach, an authoritarian style of government and a disruptive project (again similar to Chavez) that considers using oil as a leverage for development, in these days of hyper low oil prices, I guess Andres Manuel should start considering a new approach.
Easy and magical answers always have a big appeal and "promising doesn't impoverish, but accomplishing those promises could kill you" or so that said, as Alexis Tsipras, who recently gave us a big lesson in populism, might know, populism appeal gets a boost in the middle of crisis, when population becomes desperate and our alarms for disaster obscures our capacity of reasoning.
Even though populism has been known to exist since the days of Julius Caesar, in the age of the Roman Empire, it became a powerful tool during Mussolini fascist regime in Italy, it inspired Domingo Peron in Argentina and went into a weird transformation from being right wing oriented, to be adopted by the left after the collapse of the USSR, when soviet financial backing ended and Marxist Leninist and Maoist guerrillas lost its principal benefactor, guerrillas had to look for another way of taking power instead of guns, so the political route was taken, embracing populism as one of its most useful tool.
It was America, because of its huge social and economic inequities, the place where actual populism (disguised as Socialismo del Siglo XXI) had its biggest success, thanks to the old Soviet-Cuban association, almost transforming the region into the next USSR, with socialist governments established in quick progression in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Nicaragua and Venezuela, Lenin's take on Marxism, set on a group of under developed countries (becoming a Union in order to increase its power and influence) instead of Marx original thesis of developing it in a an already developed nation (as the UK or Germany, as Marx originally envisioned), almost succeeds, but it was latter derailed by the missteps that happened in Venezuela and Argentina mainly.
In Mexico populism is slowly starting to grow once again outside the system, yes, it’s a world tendency that blossomed thanks to the acute crisis of 2008, a crisis that the world still has to overcome, we have seen the rise and fall of Andres Manuel Lopez, a man to similar to the late Hugo Chavez, with a populist approach, an authoritarian style of government and a disruptive project (again similar to Chavez) that considers using oil as a leverage for development, in these days of hyper low oil prices, I guess Andres Manuel should start considering a new approach.
Aside oil
prices, this is not a good moment for Andres Manuel, as new players have arrived,
a new sort of populism is growing fast thanks to Mexico's current wave of
discomfort against government and political parties, the so called
"independents" are carrying their flag against establishment and that
is not good news for Andres Manuel, whose political party MORENA is precisely a
part of that establishment the "independents" are aiming to defeat,
the big question here is: Is Andr茅s Manuel the answer to the country´s current
crisis? Do we really want to jump into the void? Are the so called “independent
candidates” really independent? Who is backing them?
The future in M茅xico is far from bright with populism reigning supreme in a future scenario, the omnipresent PRI, Andres Manuel (a former PRI militant) and Jaime Rodriguez (another former PRI militant) becoming the big names already getting projected for the 2018 presidential race.
The future in M茅xico is far from bright with populism reigning supreme in a future scenario, the omnipresent PRI, Andres Manuel (a former PRI militant) and Jaime Rodriguez (another former PRI militant) becoming the big names already getting projected for the 2018 presidential race.
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