From Buenos Aires to Santiago, from Lima to Quito, Latin America has swung decisively to the right. Javier Milei in Argentina, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, Daniel Noboa in Ecuador — all have embraced populist, often confrontational politics.
As Donald Trump’s shadow looms larger than ever over the region, Brazil’s Lula, Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum now find themselves adrift on a shrinking progressive continent.
So when Sheinbaum recently joined Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez’s “Global Progressive Mobilization” in Barcelona — alongside Lula, Petro and Uruguay’s Yamandú Orsi — the symbolism was unavoidable. Here was Mexico’s first female president, a climate scientist and longtime leftist activist, standing against “xenophobia, climate denial and sexism” without naming Trump. But everyone knew who was in the crosshairs.
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