Pub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0007
This chapter examines how authoritarian politics in San Pedro Necta operates. It begins with an overview of different Guatemalan populisms in the 20th century, and then examines the populist rhetoric and strategy of the FRG as it played out in San Pedro. It describes how FRG populism tapped into and reinforced and tapped into a sense of powerlessness, as well as the kinds of resentments created by party politics. Authoritarian populism reinscribed neoliberal democracy’s foundational limits as it tapped into wells of insecurity, mistrust, uncertainty, and resentment created by its failures. It appealed to corporeal needs and perceived grievances, gaining followers without ideological resonance and despite revulsion at national candidates and policies.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501736056.003.0006
This chapter explores the cutthroat world of party politics in San Pedro, focusing on its assumptions, rules and effects on political thought and practice. Party politics is organized almost entirely around the local clientelist distribution of development “projects”—which can be anything from electricity, to water, a job, or a stove—to the exclusion of national politics. Candidates from nearly a dozen party factions promise projects for votes. This is a zero sum situation rife with corruption that structurally excludes the majority, resulting in division and resentment, as villagers take an active role in consigning their neighbors to abandonment—a brutal democratization of sovereign power. Through these processes, Sampedranos have learned to think of development in reduced and local ways rather than nationally, and to blame their leaders and each other for poverty. But this also fueled earnest critiques of clientelism and calls to distribute resources to the most vulnerable.
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