Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Casullo, Maria Esperanza

Titel

Argentina Turns Right, Again

Ist Teil von

• NACLA report on the Americas (1993), 2016-12, Vol.48 (4), p.361

Ort / Verlag

New York: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• After winning a narrow victory 51-49 in a November 2015 runoff election, recently elected Argentine president Mauricio Macri assumed office in early December 2015 with observers from around the region watching closely The coming to power of this twice-divorced, multimillionaire engineer was heralded as a momentous shift in Argentine, if not contemporary Latin American, political history Journalists and analysts raved about the "defeat of populism" and "a return to normalcy" in the country Indeed, for the first time since 1916, Argentina would be governed by a center-right party that was at once an unapologetic representative of the country's economic elites and a modem, politically savvy democratic organization, capable of winning a contested election-against Peronism no less. Most notably, Macri actively presented himself as a new type of center-right leader-one who would turn the page on Argentina's authoritarian and often downright criminal right-wing past and advance the country toward a previously unknown conservative political modernity.