Authors:
Luis Alberto López Rafaschieri and José Alberto López Rafaschieri
www.morochos.net
During August 2009, we made the following question to the visitors of our Spanish website Morochos.org:
What has been the key factor for the success of some left-wing radical movements in Latin America?
We gave three options and each received the following percentage of votes:
1) Weak institutions, 17%
2) Ignorance, 53%
3) Poverty, 30%
Observations:
Although these three factors may have fueled the socialist extremism that now plagues Latin America, most say that ignorance is the key variable.
And then, the truth is that some Latin American political ideas are far from satisfactory. For example, a good percentage of Latinos think that socialism and welfare is the same; that Cuba is the world's most advanced country; that the personalist movements of Chavez, Peron, and Castro have been resounding successes; that the only way to achieve development is destroying the United States; that middle-class and entrepreneurs are synonymous; that the IMF is to blame, not the bad politicians; and that democracy works in Europe but not in Latin America, just to mention some of those beliefs based on fallacies.
However, here too we can discern that information is one of the best ways to combat this socialist extremism.
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