The Caesar Temptation
For most of the nineteenth century and well into the Cold War era, re-election of a sitting president was generally prohibited in most Latin American countries. Nowadays, however, the victory of presidential incumbents across Latin America has become the predominant trend in the region’s elections.
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BUENOS AIRES – On June 28 a coup deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ending his attempt to hold a referendum that would permit his re-election. That same day in Argentina, former president Nestor Kirchner was defeated in a mid-term election that many people viewed as a test of whether or not he or his wife Cristina, Argentina’s current president and Nestor’s successor, would continue as president after the vote of 2011. Both events crystallized a peculiar Latin American phenomenon: the temptation to empower a new, local Caesar.