Aborted Populism: The empty signifiers of the General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla government

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18046/retf.i4.1608

Keywords:

Populism, Empty signifier, Nationalism, Latin American Democracies

Abstract

The paper analyzes the military rule of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla as an attempt to establishment a populist government. Using the approach proposed by Ernesto Laclau, this paper examines a historical and philosophical mobilization of the Colombian popular national symbols like the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Liberator Bolívar, and National Unity that were monitored by the General Rojas Pinilla. The author pays a particular attention to those elements in the discourse of the General that articulate historically unmet demands of the Colombian people with their new leader, but luck the real meaning. The paper concludes with an assessment of reasons why the populist mobilization, which intended to use symbols, failed in Colombia.

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  • Guillermo Andrés Duque Silva, University of Cauca

    Estudiante de Maestría en Filosofía de la Universidad del Valle. Coordinador del Centro de Investigaciones Socio jurídicas de la Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia y docente en la Universidad del Cauca, sede norte. Miembrodel grupo de investigación Praxis del programa de filosofía de la Universidad del Valle.

Estudio de nacionalismos, populismos y democracias latinoamericanas

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Published

2013-12-15

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No. 4 (2013): Estudio de nacionalismos, populismos y democracias latinoamericanas

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Aborted Populism: The empty signifiers of the General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla government. (2013). Trans-Pasando Fronteras, 4, 67-91. https://doi.org/10.18046/retf.i4.1608