Hugo Banzer

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani devotes no developed analysis to Hugo Banzer: he mentions him in passing, almost always in a list of Latin American dictators. He presents him as the dictator of Bolivia1 and links him to the dictatorships of his youth, during the Cold War23. He mentions him in the context of the fight against the Castroist guerrillas4. In more recent sessions, he places him among the dictatorships of the "free world", noting his German name5, and he specifies that he was backed by the United States6. These mentions recur from 2019 to 2025, in sessions on varied subjects: Popper, Heidegger, Napoleon, the debates on left and right, anti-Sovietism. He always uses him in the same way, as an example of an authoritarian regime supported by the Western camp, which he sets against the way this camp presents itself.

1. 1Ni gauche ni droite ? Islamo gauchisme ?17 Oct 2023 · 1:31:15
2. 2Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 2:42
3. 3«Rouges-bruns», «décolonial» : Faut-il utiliser la langue dominante ? • Q&A Philosophique • Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 1:23:45
4. 4Heidegger ou la Panzer Philosophie • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani21 May 2021 · 25:52
5. 5"Napoléon ou les raisons de la ruse", avec Dominique Pagani2 Dec 2024 · 1:31:17
6. 6De l'anti-soviétisme des khmers rouges-vert6 Feb 2025 · 25:29

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.