Talk:Populist leaders of Latin America in the 20th century

This needs a better title, but I don't know what it is.

Populist leaders of Latin America? Durova 17:22, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Populist leaders of Latin America in the 20th century, as of now. This topic, however, is distributed among the histories of the individual countries, and more than a title, you should try to find a common thread that joins them; otherwise it doesn't fit well into a single article (it becomes an annotated list of people). BTW, you may want to include more recent leaders, such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Hugo Chávez, Néstor Kirchner, Tabaré Vázquez and Evo Morales. All of them are leftist and have been called populist at one time or another, and though the Cold War is over, the U.S. is looking at their countries with suspicion as in other times. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 16:01, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Isn't charismatic leaders a term for all cult-like leaders? Including Hitler, for example? -MPD 14:27, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I completely agree with Pablo's comments. The only reason I can see for this article's existence is to identify a theme of leftist, populist leaders in post-colonial Latin America that are not quite caudillos.  Anti-Americanism might also play a part.  Also, charismatic can describe anyone from the Hebrew King David to Mao Zedong.  It doesn't imply a cult, though personality cults are commonly attributed to charisma.  --Vector4F 20:21, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I propose to rename this article into Central and South American populist leaders if this is a classification that is also used outside of Wikipedia. I disagree with the proposed merge to personality cult. Better merge candidates would be list of charismatic leaders charisma or charismatic authority Andries 09:24, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I took the freedom to change the name because the old title charismatic leaders was incorrect and misleading: there was already an article charismatic leader that re-directs to the sociological concept of charismatic authority. Andries 09:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)