Abstract
Social Catholicism pre-empted the spread of corporatism in Latin America. The Roman Catholic Church and its associated lay organizations, and intellectuals, following the publication of the Papal encyclicals became central transnational agents in the introduction of corporatist alternatives to the excesses of liberal capitalism. Catholic intellectual-politicians gave voice to an impressive process that spread social and political corporatist ideas associated mainly with Iberia throughout Latin America, thereby avoiding association with Italian Fascism. When we examine the corpus of the new authoritarian nationalist constructs in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and many other Latin American countries, we see the influence of Action Française blended with the corresponding Iberian elite movements – Acción Española in Spain and Integralismo Lusitano in Portugal: one that was corporatist, Catholic, Hispanic and Latin, and which placed great stock on values such as hierarchy, anti-liberalism and anti-communism. As in Europe, the most important models were Italian Fascism, the Primo de Rivera dictatorship in Spain and Salazar’s New State in Portugal.
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