#NewWorldReport: Bukele and the caudillo phenomenon. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
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#NewWorldReport: Bukele and the caudillo phenomenon. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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| 0:35.0 | This is the new World Report, I'm John Batch with my colleague, Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army Work Colours Strategic Studies Institute. |
| 0:42.0 | The headlines these days include Bukele, who is Naim Bukele, who is the very young millennial age president of El Salvador, a small nation in Central America. |
| 0:54.0 | Bukele has lots of ideas and one of them is to jail just about everybody who suspect or could be suspect of being part of the narco terrorism drug cartels. |
| 1:05.0 | That has, we're told, led to great popularity in El Salvador and admiration or envy from other states also preyed on by the cartels. |
| 1:16.0 | There are polls indicating that if Bukele's election was held today, the election is scheduled for 2024. |
| 1:23.0 | He'd win more than two-thirds of the vote. |
| 1:25.0 | So clearly he's riding a populist wave. |
| 1:29.0 | The question here is about democracy or authoritarianism. |
| 1:33.0 | Professor, what is it called Dio? |
| 1:35.0 | And where does it come from, this concept in Latin America? |
| 1:39.0 | Well, John, the idea of Cadeo and Latin American politics, it goes back to political science at 101 |
| 1:47.0 | when you start studying about Latin American, what are the traditions of Latin America? |
| 1:52.0 | And the source of the tradition is many, but in part, it came from the tradition imposed by the Spanish and to a lesser degree. |
| 2:01.0 | The Brazilian, the Portuguese organizers, it came from the church. |
| 2:07.0 | But in the early days, the colonial and pre-colonial days, in the early independence days, in the context of weak Latin American institutions |
| 2:18.0 | and social structures that look to authority, there was a tendency to speak the strongman. |
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