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Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He is the author of five books on fascism, populism, Dirty Wars, the Holocaust and Jewish history in Latin America and Europe. His new book, From Fascism to Populism in History, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.
The history of Latin America is littered with failed experiments in populism.
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