Studies on Italian fascism in Latin America have experienced an important development in the last two decades. The topics studied by the historians from Italy and other countries are: Mussolini and the Italian emigrants, ethnic press, cultural politics, diplomatic and economic relations, antifascism, neofascism. Other studies focus on the way local politicians and intellectuals have adapted the Italian model to their national contest, through a process that has been defined as “hybridization” or “creative adaptation”.
After mentioning the main historiographical contributions on various topics, the article focuses on three questions: the definition of “Italianess”, “Latiness” and “Universality of Rome” as instruments of the fascist internationalism; the diffusion of corporativism overseas; the reception of Latin eugenics of Nicola Pende and Corrado Gini.
