Liberalism and Conservatism in Latin American History
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Liberalism and Conservatism in Latin American History
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Liberalism and conservatism became the defining ideological guidelines of Latin American countries after they gained independence in the first quarter of the 19th century. Liberal ideology had to break the block of unshakable conservative truths that underlay all the prevailing concepts of governing the peoples of Spanish and Portuguese America: the dogmas of the omnipotence of the church, the infallibility of the pope, the inviolability of monarchies, colonial privileges, and traditionalism. In the fierce struggle between liberals and conservatives, a new ideology emerged in Latin American countries. The ideals of liberalism were based on the principles proclaimed by the French Revolution and subsequently enhanced by global political experience: liberty, equality, fraternity, secularism and education, federal republics, democracy, and progress. The distinctiveness of the Latin American experience was reflected in the Aprismo movement, which emerged in 1924, and then, based on it, in national reformism in the mid-1930s. Both currents remain used in Latin American political practice to this day. Along with them, purely national reformist currents emerged in the 1930s–1950s: Cardenism, Vargasism, Peronism, and others. For historians, political scientists, students, and anyone interested in the history of Latin America.
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