Word: personalismo
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...decade after most of Latin America returned to democratic elections, it was thought by now the region would also be governed more completely by democratic institutions. Instead, says Robert White, head of the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., and a former U.S. ambassador in Latin America, "Personalismo is alive and well," referring to the region's historical penchant for protracted personal rule. A chief reason, White notes, is that traditional democracy and capitalism have largely failed to improve Latin America's gaping inequality and frightening insecurity - so voters have largely decided to "cling as long as possible...
...station attendant. Evidently fearing similar treatment, Silvera and Sanjur decided to move first. With Torrijos out of town, they summoned the puppet provisional President, Colonel José Pinilla, and his Vice President, Colonel Bolivar Urrutia. to Guardia headquarters. Torrijos was finished, they announced. His crime? He had indulged in personalismo (building a "personality cult...
Believer in Personalismo. A firm believer in personalismo, Balaguer runs a tight, one-man government, dispensing all patronage, settling all arguments and making all decisions, even down to personally granting and signing every visa. When he needed money for a pet hydroelectric project in the north, Balaguer not only arranged personally for $30 million in U.S. aid, but organized telethons in Santo Domingo and Santiago that raised another $385,000 from Dominicans themselves. A onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes...
Twelve-Hour Day. Balaguer runs the Dominican Republic in the grand old Latin tradition of personalismo, dealing directly and personally with problems, people-and enemies. No sooner had he taken office after last year's elections than he packed General Elias Wessin y Wessin, leader of the army's ultra right, off to New York as the country's alternate delegate to the U.N.; fiery Leftist Juan Bosch, in turn, went into "voluntary" exile in Spain. In the name of "national unity," Balaguer appointed members of Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party as his ministers of industry...
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