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“Populist
Wave” Is Not A threat To Stability in Latin
America
The “populist wave” in Latin America
represented by leaders such as Venezuela’s
Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales in Bolivia are
not an “excessive threat” to stability and
territorial balance said Chilean writer
Jorge Edwards.
“Even when Latin America lacks the political
maturity of Europe”, currently there are
very stable countries in the region such as
Chile, Brazil and Peru said the
distinguished scholar, 1999 Cervantes
Literature Prize (equivalent to the Nobel in
Spanish language) who is known for also
writing solid pieces on regional politics.
He added that other countries in the region,
according to his viewpoint, which could be
facing political or social fragmentation,
are Mexico and Paraguay which have many
problems but will manage to move ahead.
Speaking in Spain after having been h0noured
with the City of Valladolid Literature Prize
for his paper on “The House of Dostoievsky”,
Edwards tracked the “populist wave” to
traditional burdens of the region such as
economic difficulties, oppressed minorities
and aborigine groups and majorities which
can’t find ways to express themselves”.
“I believe these problems can be addressed
“with common sense, practical wisdom and a
clear sense of reality”, pointed out
Edwards.
Finally he included the current political
crisis in Honduras as part of that “wave of
populism” and complained it was blown up out
of all proportion by the media that prefer
to insist “on the negative sides of Latin
Americaor the latest ludic fabrications of
Chavez, than the positive sides of
governance and effective democracy in most
of the continent
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