Humala least popular in president in Latin America (as of publication mid-March)

[Bacchus4.0]

Dilma would be last now likely.

http://utero.pe/2015/03/02/humala-es-el-presidente-con-menor-popularidad-en-america-latina-segun-el-economista-hasta-maduro-le-gano/

The survey also has ratings at the end of recent president's mandates.




Humala is interesting as Peru is booming economically still. Although, the same was true under Garcia who didn't have the best ratings either.

[forest444]

1. Good point. It could be because "economic boom" and living standards are not one and the same.

Many very poor countries have elevated rates of GDP growth (7% or more, year after year); but by both anecdote and statistical measure they remain poor because development takes much longer than growth (if growth leads to development at all). What you often get instead is a lot of popular discontent and resentment - not the kind that can be easily gauged by a approval/popularity poll, but rather a deep-seated and generalized alienation.

This is all the more so in countries like Peru, where most of the population is categorically excluded from the spoils of the "boom." Whether their president is a gray eminence like Belaúnde, a populist like García, a sharpie like Fujimori, or even their fellow Amerinidians as in case of Toledo and Humala, most Peruvians will probably always feel like -and be treated as- foreigners in their own land.

The U.S. has been slowly but surely creating the same problem for itself over the last 15 years or so, unfortunately.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Sounds like his base has abandoned him

http://www.peruviantimes.com/13/perus-left-aims-to-regroup-ahead-of-2016-election/23995/

[Bacchus4.0]

3. nt