TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Contested Discourse, Contested Power: Nationalism and the Left in Paraguay
JO  - Bulletin of Latin American research
A1  - Lambert, Peter
A1  - Medina, Ricardo
SP  - 339
EP  - 355
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
N2  - Nationalism has been a key, but generally overlooked, component of twentieth-century Paraguayan politics and an important explanatory factor in the country’s political outcomes. Indeed, it has been central to the struggle for political power, most significantly to the continuing hegemony of the Colorado Party. This article traces the development of the Paraguayan Left, highlighting its structural and functional weaknesses, and analyses its relationship with nationalism, in particular with the dominant Colorado nationalist discourse. It argues that an important failure of the Left – and indeed other political parties and movements – has been its inability to produce a successful challenge to this hegemonic discourse.<p /> 
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SN  - 0261-3050
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1470-9856.2007.00228.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -