Cheverismo is a term that was coined in airport lounges, at restaurant tables, in the hallways of fairs, bars, parties… it refers more to an attitude than anything else. It isn’t a movement that came together in the academy; rather it finds its origins in the street or in pure lived experience. It lives off friendship, but doesn’t exclude other mandates.
Even if those in Central America and the Caribbean could rely upon institutional or state-sponsored support for the development of contemporary art, Cheverismo would still exist, because it belongs to culture and knowledge in general before it belongs to art history.