Latin America’s putative swing to the right is in sync with Trump’s hemispheric security strategy

A far-right supporter wearing an Augusto Pinochet pin at a campaign closing rally in the presidential election in Santiago, Chile In jubilation, when news reached him from Lima that arch-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast had emerged victorious in Chile’s presidential election, Argentina’s right wing president Javier Milei posted a map of South America on X …