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Democracy is backsliding fast in Latin America—and Trump's fingerprints are all over it
The Right Wing Didn’t “Rise” in Latin America. It Was Armed, Normalized, and Rewarded.The Real Center of GravityThe source article tries to sound analytical, but its own evidence points in a simpler direction: the people with actual power are not migrants, not crime victims, and not the electorates reduced to panic. The actors with leverage are presidents, far-right candidates, and the political operators who know how to convert breakdown into votes. Donald Trump is not a detached observer here. He openly favors right-wing allies like Nayib Bukele and Javier Milei, despises Lula da Silva, and…
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