Latin America’s Foxy Leaders
A new kind of Latin American leader – moderate, intellectually humble, and prone to gradualism – has been in ascendance since the 1990s. The elder statesman of this generation of pragmatists, Patricio Aylwin, who led Chile from dictatorship to democracy a quarter-century ago, died last week.
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SANTIAGO – “Every country gets the leaders it deserves,” the French counter-revolutionary Joseph de Maistre quipped. He was wrong. The countries of Latin America did not deserve the blustering demagogues and iron-fisted generals who, until recently, often occupied the seats of government.