Latin America has seen shifts to the right recently as part of the global movement toward conservatism. We are going to see the latest on the success of right wing patriot candidates in Latin America and what it means for the growing conservative movement all around the world.
– Ecuador recently elected a conservative president, Daniel Noboa, decisively defeating a far-left candidate with ties to Cuba and Venezuela.
– Both Ecuador and Chile focused their campaigns on two key issues: combating “wokeness” and addressing crime.
– The shift to the right in Latin America reflects the “Bukele effect,” characterized by a rejection of woke ideologies and a strong focus on restoring law and order as a solution to societal decay.
The nation of Ecuador has just voted in a new conservative president. 35-year-old Daniel Noboa won the presidential election yesterday, decisively beating a far-left lunatic candidate who wanted to align Ecuador with Cuba and Venezuela. What is so interesting here is that the formula for the big win was the same political formula that has worked throughout the Latin American region.
Just a few months ago, Chile voted overwhelmingly for their ‘far right’ that won a massive supermajority to change their constitution into a far more nationalist, populist, and traditionalist document. It was a shock election that responded to an attempt by far-leftists to impose a radically woke constitution on the Chilean people. CNN called it the most progressive constitution on the planet. Chilean patriots fought back and ran a campaign that focused on ending two things: wokeness and crime!
Those two issues delivered massive results in a stunning electoral landslide win for conservative forces. It was the same in Ecuador. Noboa hammered his opponent, a woke leftist soft on crime. Noboa is the hardliner who would restore law and order in the nation, comparable to what El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has done in his nation; you may have heard about El Salvador’s new mega-prison that President Bukele had built to house upwards of 40,000 prisoners at a time.
A few years ago, Bukele, a very successful businessman and former mayor of San Salvador ran for president as a populist outsider who campaigned on basically draining the swamp in Salvadoran politics and restoring law and order to what had become one of the single most violent nations in the world. At one point, El Salvador had the highest murder rate in the entire world, averaging one murder per hour. Drug cartels and gangs controlled everything. The government became little more than a passive spectator!
With Bukele at the helm, all of that has come to a dramatic end. The homicide rate in El Salvador has plummeted. Before Bukele came to power, El Salvador averaged 108 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest in the world. The murder rate today is now just 8 per 100,000. The murder rate has dropped by more than 90%. One of the reasons for the dramatic drop in murder rates is Bukele’s creation of what’s being called a super prison that houses upwards of 40,000 prisoners, many of whom are in prison for the next 40 years for gang-related activity.
Bukele’s massive crackdown on violent crime has resulted in the arrest of over 64,000 violent criminals, and it’s changing El Salvador like never before. You can see this in Bukele’s approval rating. He stands at an incredible 90% approval. He is one of the most popular national leaders in the world. What we are seeing in Ecuador and Chile is what pundits are calling the Bukele effect in Latin America.
The nation of Argentina will be going to the polls this weekend for their presidential election, and the clear frontrunner is Javier Milei. Milei is often compared to Donald Trump, and not just because of his eccentric hair or mannerisms. He loves Trump and he has embraced the comparison. He is also a staunch Catholic who seeks to end abortion and he completely rejects cultural Marxist LGBT ideology. He once called the current pope a ‘filthy leftist!’
He was also recently featured on Tucker Carlson’s latest episodes on Twitter. Milei is on his way to the presidency at a time when Argentina is experiencing 116% inflation along with a cost-of-living crisis that’s left 4 in 10 Argentines in poverty. Milei wants to adopt the dollar as the national currency to help stabilize the economy, abolish Argentina’s central bank which he sees as incurably corrupt, and promote Bitcoin investment to return currency to the ownership of the people.
He is dominating the polls and is the clear front-runner going into this weekend’s election. This shift to the right is because of the Bukele effect that seems to be sweeping much of the region. A resounding rejection of all things woke together with restoring law and order are viewed as the only solution to the society decay that comes as a result of everything woke. As long as politicians throughout the region hammer on those two themes: wokeness and crime, the Bukele effect won’t have just transformed El Salvador, it will have done much to transform the world!
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