The Canadian Union of Fascists in English Canada never reached the level of popularity that the Parti national social chrétien enjoyed in Quebec.
[2] The Canadian Union of Fascists focused on economic issues, while the Parti national social chrétien concentrated on racist themes.
[6] The existence of figures sympathetic to Nazism in high political positions has been pointed out in the administrations of León Cortés Castro and Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia.
[9] During Calderón Guardia's presidency, Costa Rica declared war on the Third Reich, leading to the imprisonment of many German and Italian citizens and residents.
[10] The Central American leader who came closest to being an important domestic fascist was Arnulfo Arias of Panama who during the 1940s, became a strong admirer and advocate of Italian fascism following his ascension to presidency in 1940.
[13] As in Cuba, Falangist groups have been active in Puerto Rico, especially during World War II, when an 8,000 member branch came under FBI scrutiny.
The group espoused some aspects of the palingenetic ultranationalism, a core tenet of fascism, as it aimed to bring about a societal rebirth, distancing itself from anarchism, communism, socialism, liberalism, Freemasonry, secularism and Americanism,which it believed was prevalent in Mexico.
[19] A more modern group, the Nationalist Front of Mexico was founded in San Luis Potosí in 2006 by Juan Carlos López Lee.
The origins of fascism in the United States date back to the late 19th century, during the passage of Jim Crow laws in the American South, the rise of the eugenicist discourse in the U.S., and the intensification of nativist and xenophobic hostility towards European immigrants.
[23] The rise of fascism in Europe during the interwar period raised concerns in the U.S. but European fascist regimes were largely viewed in a positive light by the American ruling class, including government officials, businessmen, and other members of the elite.
Its leaders denounced the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jewish-American groups, Communism, "Moscow-directed" trade unions and American boycotts of German goods.
[29] The high point of the Bund's activities was their rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on February 20, 1939, with around 20,000 people in attendance.
In the U.S., this campaign of suppression culminated in "The Great Sedition Trial" of November 1944, in which George Sylvester Viereck, Lawrence Dennis, Elizabeth Dilling, William Dudley Pelley, Joe McWilliams, Robert Edward Edmondson, Gerald Winrod, William Griffin, and, in absentia, Ulrich Fleischhauer were all put on trial for aiding the Nazi cause, supporting fascism and isolationism.