Dr. Robert Harding Latin America is very fond of the word hope. We like to be called the continent of hope.
Candidates call themselves the candidates of hope.
This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century. It is assumed that you know very little about the region. As such, there are no prerequisites. Attention is given to the interaction of political, economic, social, and cultural factors that have influenced the development of political systems in Latin America, as well as the current sociopolitical trends in the region.