Posted on 10/31/2022 4:28:04 AM PDT by FarCenter
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – With his narrow election victory over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday, Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appears to have cemented a left-wing political conquest of Latin America.
From Mexico in the north to Chile in the south, the region's constantly see-sawing political map once again resembles that of the early 2000s, when a so-called "pink tide" of left-leaning governments washed over it.
But analysts say this time is different: the trend is driven by pragmatism rather than ideology.
"It's not because Latin Americans are becoming more leftist. I don't think there's any evidence to support that," analyst Michael Shifter of the Inter-American Dialogue told AFP.
In their most recent election cycles, Latin American countries have resoundingly dethroned incumbent parties on the right and center-right of the political spectrum.
Honduras, Bolivia and Argentina are among those to have turned their backs on the right, while Colombia in June elected its first leftist president despite a deep-rooted mistrust, as elsewhere in the region, of anything with perceived links to "communism."
Many voters were jolted leftward by economic troubles and the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Voters across the globe felt ignored, even denigrated, by the political establishment as poverty and inequality deepened.
"It is more of a rejectionist trend than anything else... people looking for an alternative," said Shifter of the recent string of leftist victories.
"It just so happens that we are in that moment in Latin America where a lot of the governments that are being rejected are of the right or the center right."
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More china influence on our door step
They will regret this.
They chose poorly
Lula is their Biden. They are good with a a criminal leader.
The article is BS.
Its ALWAYS about control and money. Its about who has the money and who wants the money. Period.
>>More china influence on our door step
Washington to Rio is 4790 miles and 9.5 hours flying time.
“door step”?
And enjoy that zoo animal meat!
DC is riddled with CCP spies. They’re already here.
Power and money. Always.
The Biden regime did everything possible to get rid of Bolsonero. Looks like they won.
Is this a warning for the USA? Everyone predicts a Republican big win but...?? After all the crap that’s been going on in the world and Brazil goes hard left? MMmmm.
One mistake Trump made was tolerating the Honduran invasion. He should have sent in the US Marines to end the Honduran threat to American security
He had lots of precedents for such action
The Biden regime sent the election fortifiers iirc.
The worldwide leftist msm is trying to find any positive news/opinions/spin that it can, prior to the November 8th U.S. general election. Also, my longtime tagline.
Probably. Foreigners are deeply involved in election interference all over the world. They work for the Liberal World order.
On a TV news segment: There were 2 female airheads that were babies last time Lula ruled, who said, with great happiness, ‘now we can dream again’ - just what political dreams do babies have?
>>Is this a warning for the USA?
Not necessarily. The article points out that the Lula victory is due more to a throw the bums out sentiment sweeping the world that would actually favor the Republicans as the non-incumbents in our case.
YUGE dumbassery. Sorry Bolsonaro. Too bad Brazil. 🚽
“now we can dream again”
That is what the starry-eyed young leftists always say when they win—and then a few years later they are homeless and starving in their “paradise on earth”.
Homo Sapiens has turned stupidity into an art form.
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