With a few exceptions Latins of Central and South America seem to have a weakness to move to the radical left. maybe it’s poverty, maybe it’s the Catholic Church???
Wasn’t Chile just a few decades ago seen as a thriving economy and most free market? Now they as well are flirting with socialism.
No matter the death, depredation and misery it brings, Communism still retains a high degree of popularity in Latin America. FARC and the cartels will be making a major comeback in Colombia.
Latinos = Natural Conservatives. Yeah, right.
Chile, the most prosperous country in Latin America, just elected an age 30-something neo-Marxist as President about six months ago.
The only consequential, conservative, and pro-American leader left is Bolsonaro, in Brazil.
Here come the Colombia drug “caravans”. If you need anything at Walmart, you better get it now.
125 Million at least.
Colombia is two years behind what our voters did but will have the same result.
Chile Marxist Guerrilla, meet US Marxist Guerrilla, Joe Biden
1983 : (COLUMBIA : ) FARC’s war on America dates back to 1983 when the Marxist terror group took its first American hostage.
1996 : (COLUMBIA : ) Frank Pescatore, a geologist, was kidnapped and murdered by FARC in 1996. The Marxist terrorists packed his body with lime and formaldehyde and tried to pretend that he was still alive in the hopes of collecting a ransom for him.
1999 spring : (COLUMBIA : ) “Take them across the river and burn them.” That was how the lives of three left-wing American environmental activists had ended in the spring of 1999. Their killers were members of the FARC Marxist terror group. The victims were shot in the face after being tortured.
2015 : (WASHINGTON, DC : -— see COLUMBIA) Obama administration says that it would not seek the extradition of FARC terrorists.