Botin Risks Confronting Latin America-Style Populism at Home
- Anti-austerity Podemos may be part of government in Spain
- Botin has experience working with Latin American leftists
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Ana Botin knows a thing or two about dealing with populists.
Over more than two decades the 59-year-old chairman of Banco Santander SA, Spain’s largest lender, helped build the biggest overseas banking empire in Latin America, successfully navigating bouts of anti-market populism by the region’s governments. Now, she may have to contend with one at home.