Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's election in Brazil is the latest triumph for the left, which now controls six of Latin America's seven largest countries.
The steep rise in police violence has been celebrated by President Jair Bolsonaro, who has pushed for laws that would provide immunity for officers who commit homicide in the line of duty.Driving the pendulum swing are voters hungry for change amid rising inequality and frustration with how governments handled the pandemic and its economic fallout.
“It’s a much more complicated world,” said Brian Winter, vice president for policy at the Council of the Americas, who said today’s political and economic reality means the new crop of leaders has less freedom than their predecessors to carry out ambitious agendas. Then there’s the opposition. Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing incumbent, won in a majority of states, while conservative candidates increased their representation in Congress, and tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in recent days claiming that Lula stole the election and demanding that the armed forces take control of the government.
Last December, Gabriel Boric, a tattooed former student activist won Chile’s presidential election, garnering the most votes ever cast for a candidate in the nation’s history.Vowing that Chile would “be the grave” of neoliberalism, the 36-year-old Boric set out to widen the social safety net and pass a new constitution that would enshrine gender equality, environmental protections and Indigenous rights.
“These guys came in with all of this optimism, and they have both been ground down by circumstances and their own mistakes,” Winter said. Today’s friendlier relations are due in part to the softer nature of the region’s leaders, who tend to be less ideological than those of the past. During a trip through South America last month in which he pointedly met with three of the region’s leftist presidents, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, shown in August, repeatedly made it clear that Washington was glad to work with governments, right or left, as long as they were democratic.
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