The Development of Accion Democratica de Venezuela

Bibliographic Data

ID14830383
AuthorsHarry Kantor (corresponding author)
Year1959
Volume1
Issue2
Pages237-255
Publication date1959-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Inter-American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0885-3118 • E-ISSN: 2326-4047
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/165030
OpenAlexW2782858953
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited2

The election of Rómulo Betancourt as constitutional President of Venezuela for the 1959-1964 term marks a turning point in that country's political evolution and a high point in the tide of reform now sweeping Latin American toward stable constitutional government. The new president of Venezuela and the party he leads, Acción Democrática, represent the same type of reformist movement as those now flourishing in many other countries of Latin America. As a result, dictatorship in the spring of 1959 is confined to the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Paraguay. The situation in Haiti is unclear, but in the other sixteen republics the governments are controlled by parties and leaders which are to a greater or lesser degree trying to get away from the past and seem to have the support of their populations in their efforts. This marks a great change from most of the past history of the Latin American Republics in which the population was ruled by dictatorial cliques dedicated to the preservation of a status quo which meant the perpetuation of poverty and backwardness for most of the Latin Americans

Backwardness · Democracy · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Sociology · Status quo · Cultural and political discourse analysis · Demography · History · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Public Policy and Governance

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