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Juan Manuel Morales

Juan Manuel Morales

PhD Candidate, Political Science, Université de Montréal
Political Science PhD student at the Université de Montréal. My research centres on political cleavages, populism, and political activism, particularly in Latin America. I am a member of the Canada Research Chair in Participation and Citizenship(s), the Research Team on Inclusion and Governance in Latin America, and the Research Centre on Social Policy and Development.

How the ‘New Right’ in Latin America differs from other emerging far-right movements

Sep 29, 2024 10:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Following the end of the progressive wave of the 2000s and 2010s in Latin America, the right has reinvented itself and regained political space. There is the self-styled libertarianism of Javier Milei in Argentina, the...

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