Some Questions Concerning Fascism in Latin America

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What countries in Latin America have had fascist dictatorships at some point in their history?

Is it safe to say that a majority of Latin American countries have at some point been ruled by fascists?

Also, has anyone ever come up with a number of deaths as a result of fascism in Latin America?

Is it fair to group all Latin American countries together in this way?

Can all Latin American fascism be attributed to or directly connected to the United States?

Just some questions. Answer what you can. Thanks.

[Nuvem]

Fascism itself has never found much of a foothold in Latin America. Most Latin American dictatorships are "pet dictatorships", autocracies maintained and supported by Imperialist nations abroad. The tiny silver lining on the edge of this stormcloud is that even most imperialists don't want Fascists running the show in countries they exploit- in fact, the state-corporation power merger makes (Edit: FOREIGN) exploitation very difficult, unlike the goldmine of worker exploitation that is the free market.

The best example of true Fascism in Latin American was Argentina under Juan Peron, excuse my lack of accents. Peron was extremely fond of Mussolini and while he never pursued a directly Fascist program he certainly held fairly unchallenged power. He was "elected" 3 times, but we all know what "elected" means in Latin America. A military coup ousted him 1955, but he returned to power in 1973, dying in 1974.

He dropped such gems as, quote,


Italian Fascism led popular organizations to an effective participation in national life, which had always been denied to the people. Before Mussolini's rise to power, the nation was on one hand and the worker on the other, and the latter had no involvement in the former. [...] In Germany happened exactly the same phenomenon, meaning, an organized state for a perfectly ordered community, for a perfectly ordered population as well: a community where the state was the tool of the nation, whose representation was, under my view, effective. I thought that this should be the future political form, meaning, the true people's democracy, the true social democracy.Many people came to love him for eliminating a degree of poverty and glorifying the workers, but he did so in the same way that the Nazi party and other regional Fascist parties did: corporate-state cooperation disguised as egalitarianism. He is also well known for the sheltering of Nazi war criminals following WWII. Later, Peronist death squads began eliminating party members of competing parties with special emphasis on hunting down Communists in Argentina. Accurate death tolls for these events are hard to find, I've never come across any.

Partido Justialista of Argentina is the leading Peronist party and is currently in power in Argentina, though the party is strange in orientation. While generally regarded as centrist, a former party leader suggested entry into the Socialist International, a proposal which was quickly stricken down. In 2005 there was a major 3-way party split. Luckily, they've made no attempts to reinstate Peron's policies.

[redsky]

Chile would probably qualify, at least as post WWII fascism lite. It seems more than highly likely, though I cannot cite specific sources, that American corporate capital was the proximate cause. There was an antecedent, however, to the 70's- 80's regime. In an old Life magazine there is a shot of Chilean fascists- the original brand ca 1940- giving a convoluted Roman salute and captioned with " No importa, camarades. Neustra sangre salvara a Chile"