Presentation: Latin America and Inclusion Policies

Abstract

After the years of the deepening of the neoliberal model, processes that have been characterised as new Latin American populisms or radical populisms began in several countries of the continent (Follari, 2008). In this way, the region seemed to be characterised by a new democratic culture capable of closing the alternation between populist inclusion and military exclusion to give way to democracies that were sustainable over time, initiating a stage conducive to the culture of law, individual freedom, tolerance and pluralism (Zanatta, 2012).

By the middle of the second decade of the century, these processes were interrupted in almost all the countries of the region, through various mechanisms, but without resorting to the military dictatorship model of the twentieth century. A new right-wing emerged, with unprecedented characteristics in several respects.