Hispanic American Historical Review 89:1 Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press against the tide of history. Reidâs analysis is both glib and tendentious in these pages. Latin Americaâs populist and revolutionary traditions have never been just a question of opportunistic, demagogic leaders and misguided masses. Democracy was elusive in Latin America above all because of entrenched elite opposition. If democracy has become a permanent way of life in Latin America, both populists and revolutionaries have made their contributions to it. Reid runs through the accomplishments of those countries that have managed to combine vigorous market reforms and consolidated democracies, such as Chile, his hijo predilecto in the region, and contrasts them with the excesses of Chavez, Evo Morales, and others who cling stubbornly to Latin Americaâs old and very bad ways. The evidence he marshals to make his case is drawn largely from those who would agree with both his diagnosis of Latin Americaâs ills and his prescriptions to remedy them. (He shows a certain fondness for citing articles from the Economist itself.) He ignores the growing academic literature that, without advocating either the revolution or populism he so abhors, questions whether so-called neoliberal economic policies are really
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