-Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — Populist governments love to control the judiciary. We’ve seen it in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to curtail judicial powers — probably to wriggle out of pending court cases against himself — and nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Donald J. Trump, to alter its balance in favor of conservatives. Such shenanigans are a classic feature of politics in our region, where liberal democracy is struggling to mature. Disregarding those brazen dictatorships with no checks or balances, we have the example of Brazil, where former president Jair B…