América Latina y la influencia de los modelos políticos europeos en los años 80

Abstract

Latin America has not been a stranger to the experiences of European political models, including socialist ones. Currently, there are certain regimes and movements that claim to be socialist. This article analyzes the possibility of a type of socialist solution à la Mitterrand in the face of the peculiarities of Latin American social and economic development. To answer this question, some considerations are first made about what the situation in Latin America is with regard to the understanding, on the part of the left, of what European socialism is, and its evaluation at the ideological level. We argue that it is not only at the level of ideology and political strategies that Mitterrand's experience may be important for socialism in Latin America. It might also be on the strictly political level, that of class alliances.