Resumen de Populism, fascism and caudillismo in the United States: the case of Huey P. Long
Huey P. Long , who ruled Louisiana first as governor and then as senator from the late-twenties to the mid-thirties, until his assassination in 1935, was a flamboyant politician difficultto define. This article seeks to analyze Longa.k.a. the Kingfish in three different categories:as a populist, as a fascist, and as a Latin American caudillo. His policies and discourse aimedatthe “common man” were populist with deep rootsin the rhetoric of American populism of the late nineteenth century. Long has often been connected with European fascism andhas even been misunderstood as the American version of Mussolini and Hitler. It will be argued that the politician only coincided with fascism chronologically, not otherwise. Finally, it will be suggested that the most interest in gand innovative approach to the polemic figure is to compare him with Latin American politicians of the same time period, in order to break conceptual boundaries between “North” and “South” America
