Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
Crime, abortion and socialism, not immigration, are the issues that rile them
“Mr President!” Javier Milei could barely contain himself when he met Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) near Washington in February. The pair embraced and exchanged slogans, with Mr Trump intoning “Make Argentina Great Again” several times and Argentina’s new president yipping “Viva la libertad, carajo” (“Long live freedom, dammit”) in response.
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