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A Far-Right Backlash Is Surging in Latin America as Crime Fears Fuel Bukele-Style Crackdowns
Conservative candidates are winning votes with Bukele-style crackdowns as extortion, kidnappings and drug violence rise across the region, analysts said.
- Right-Wing populists are sweeping elections across Latin America by promising 'tough-on-crime' strategies popularized by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, capitalizing on disaffected voters' demand for immediate security solutions.
- Extortion and kidnappings have increased by nearly 180% over four years, fueling public frustration and creating conditions ripe for conservative candidates to capitalize on shrinking confidence in state institutions.
- In Peru, Keiko Fujimori campaigns on a law-and-order platform vowing to deploy military forces in prisons and along borders; in Colombia, pro-Trump businessman Abelardo de la Espriella leads polls ahead of Sunday's runoff with similar security pledges.
- Despite warnings from Adam Isacson, director for defense oversight at the Washington Office on Latin America organization, that short-term security measures may come at the expense of 'democracy and human rights,' voters embrace these tactics.
- An emergent right-wing movement collaborates across the region and with the U.S. through the MAGA movement, which Enrique Roig, vice president of the nonprofit Human Rights First, notes has used crime as a rallying cry for political mobilization.
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