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...phrase in Macbeth properly summarizes Latin America’s difficulties with democracy: “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself” and clouds leaders’ minds when annoying electoral results or too rigid constitutions come between them and power. And just like Macbeth, Latin America’s patriarchs lose sight of their humanity through equivocating terms and definitions...
...Obviously, translating this simple theory into practice is extremely complicated. Cultural legacies are the first problem. Conquered by two naval superpowers with Papal mandates, Latin America was plundered for precious metals as its indigenous populations died from disease and war. Spaniards and Portuguese alike were highly autocratic, installing viceroys without even the façade of local representation...
...Latin America’s ‘strong man’ phenomenon stems from deeper historical roots. The Enlightenment brought admirable leaders, San Martín and Simón Bolívar, who were comparable to George Washington, but local leaders shattered their dream of a free and united continent. Latin America—a gargantuan landmass with roughly the same Catholic beliefs, mostly one language, and similar cultural heritage, institutions, and economic development—was not encouraged to unite as a republic, or even a confederacy...
...unifying trait of these Latin American Macbeths is that they disregard democratic continuity; nothing transcends them. This is even represented in the syntax used every time a new regime or military junta is called in. The PRI party’s name in Mexico, which “won” elections uninterruptedly for almost a century, stands for “Institutional Revolution Party.” In Argentina, the last military junta instituted a permanent “Process of National Reorganization,” which gave painful birth to thousands of “desaparecidos...
...South Asia is slated for Oct. 16, with a kick-off event in Mumbai featuring several CEOs of top Indian companies. The South Asia edition joins HBR versions printed in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, Russia, Spain, and Taiwan—as well as Spanish- and Portuguese-language Latin American publications based in Chile. Although less than 5 percent of the Indian population—which totals nearly 1.1 billion—speaks English fluently, HBS South Asia will be published in English, making it the first international edition in the same language as the review’s flagship...