Posted on 12/21/2025 7:07:09 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Latin America's political shift toward conservative governments was reinforced this week when Chileans elected far-right politician Jose Antonio Kast for the 2026-2030 term. It was the largest vote total ever recorded in a presidential election there.
Chile's result strengthened a regional trend that is reshaping domestic political balances and points to closer political and economic alignment with the United States.
Chile became the latest country in the region to deliver an electoral swing by handing victory to the opposition and rejecting the ruling coalition's candidate backed by President Gabriel Boric, a leftist.
The outcome reflects a new regional political map marked by the erosion of progressive projects and the advance of right-wing alternatives, many of them campaigning on hardline positions on security, economic policy and governance.
With Chile, nine Latin American countries are now governed by right-leaning presidents. In 2025, Bolivia joined the group with the election of Rodrigo Paz, while Honduras awaits an electoral decision between two conservative candidates.
The bloc also includes Santiago Pena in Paraguay, Daniel Noboa in Ecuador, Javier Milei in Argentina, Luis Abinader in the Dominican Republic, Jose Raul Mulino in Panama and Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, who was re-elected in 2024 and has emerged as one of the region's most prominent conservative leaders.
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Maybe they are tired of starving.
Maybe all the left-leaning ones came here.
Smart move.
Alignment with the United States is an economic winner moving forward.
Beating your head against an Orange Brick Wall is for Western Hemisphere Nations that don’t value the economic prosperity of their people, but would rather align with a fantasy world of globalist social values that are irrelevant.
No kidding.
Every time I read “far right” I think “freedom loving.”
Except Brazil where Biden helped the leftist win and imprison the conservative.
I didn’t realize that so many Latin American countries had shifted right.
I knew about Argentina and El Salvador.
It does look that way, doesn't it?
Problem is there are winners and losers in capitalism. Add a big touch of corruption and the siren call of socialism comes into vogue. They need to treat the left the way Pinochet treated them. Make Bernie Goetz the chief of police.
The outcome reflects a new regional political map marked by the erosion of progressive projects and the advance of right-wing alternatives, many of them campaigning on hardline positions on security, economic policy and governance.
That's just extreme leftist semantics masquerading as journalism.
There's Right Wing, the other option being Wrong Wing.
,,, Chileans would no doubt have eyed the turnaround in Argentina and worked out that all socialism has done over the decades is spread poverty evenly.
| Alignment with the United States is an economic winner moving forward... * * * Yes, and it's more than coincidental that all these positive developments are occurring in these Latin American countries when the U.S. has its first Hispanic Secretary of State... Go Marco! |
No matter how left someone’s politics are, they are always near to the press’s.
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