The populist economic policy paradigm: early peronism as an archetype
Before Hugo Chavez burst into the political scene in Venezuela, Argentina’s Juan Perón (18951974) was considered the quintessential Latin American populist leader. He ruled Argentina from mid 1943 until September 1955 and between 1973 and 1974 and his political party has been in power two thirds of the time since the reestablishment of democracy in 1983. Perón’s economic policies between 1946 and 1949 are also considered archetypical.