Journal of Latin American Studies

Table of Contents - 1994 - Volume 26, Issue 03  

Articles

Velasco Ibarra and ‘La Revolución Gloriosa’: The Social Production of a Populist Leader in Ecuador in the 1940s*

Carlos De La Torrea1

a1 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey

This article is a study of the emergence of a populist leader. By combining an analysis of the social creation of the populist leader José María Velasco Ibarra in ‘La Revolución Gloriosa’ (or the May Revolution), with a study of his discourse, this paper explains why Velasco Ibarra became the central political figure in Ecuador in the mid-1940s.

Footnotes

* I thank the following people for their comments: William Messmer, William Roseberry and Charles Tilly. Also, I wish to thank the two anonymous reviewers of the Journal of Latin American Studies for their suggestions.

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