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Richard Luthmann's avatar

The realignment is not mysterious. Citizens want safe streets, stable money, jobs, borders, schools, energy, and governments that do basic things competently. That is why Milei, Bukele-style security politics, Ecuador’s rightward movement, and now Colombia’s runoff matter. Stone frames De La Espriella as a Trump-Milei-Bukele-style outsider, while Reuters notes Cepeda is moving away from a constituent-assembly idea as he courts centrists before the runoff. That tells you the pressure is real. The Latin American Left can still win races, but it no longer owns the future by default. The romance of socialism is colliding with results.

Pinky Panther's avatar

Roger Stone destroys the paradigm of kaleidoscope glass -wearing liberals and refocuses our attention on the political climate and direction that can save the western world. Many thanks, as usual, for Richard Luthman to cross post and bring our attention to Roger’s brilliant perspective. It should hit you over the head like an ACME hammer. Across Latin America, many citizens have witnessed the promises of socialist and collectivist movements collide with economic hardship, corruption, and political instability. As a result, there has been a growing return to the region's deep Christian roots, where faith, family, personal responsibility, and traditional values remain central to everyday life. For many believers, this shift reflects a renewed recognition that moral leadership and spiritual foundations are essential to national strength. The resurgence of conservative, faith-oriented movements suggests that millions are looking to God, not government, as the primary source of guidance, stability, and hope for the future.

Alan's avatar

Sadly you fail to mention how the US influences these changes. Not one country in Latin America is free from US interference. Furthermore the elites are always focused on the US and not their neighbors. The United States of Latin America could be a very powerful block yet this would threaten the US so the US divides and conquers.

helene's avatar

United Fruit and Pepsi Cola....

Patrick Chine's avatar

The Creature from Jekyll Island, 1994. Debt service on loans is how the Rothschild bankers make money.

Central and South America were resource rich and infrastructure poor. However, none of the policies from the '70s onward addressed the educational requirements to support the infrastructure. For example, a representative of the US government went to a southern country to see what went wrong with the loans of the '70s, and found a farmer and his son working in the field. The tractor that had been purchased was sitting in the field with his shirt hanging on it. When asked why they were doing by hand what the tractor was supposed to do, the farmer explained that the tractor broke down and no one could fix it and they could not afford to have it fixed by the US corporation. So, it served as a place to hang shirts when working in the fields.

Rothschild bankers still expect the debt service, but there are no products. In other words, the supply curve did not shift down. The result is inflation because the debt can only be serviced by more debt.

Until these countries focus only on sustainable downward shifts of the supply curve, nothing has changed. That has not occurred in Argentina or anywhere else. Javier Milei, like everyone else, is busy robbing Peter to pay Paul. He will be vilified by PhDs in Economics in a few years.

Matthew Murphy's avatar

Before starting this: if you say it's because the “Monkeys”’ haircuts are coming back, im gonna be pissed.