Brazil is Swinging to the Right. Here's Why.
Simon Whistler · October 6, 2026 · 15 min video · Americas
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In the last few years, Latin America's right has been stacking its winds across
The continent.
San Salvador, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, and this summer Bogotar.
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Flavio Bolsonaro leads Lula into October's runoff with Congress already in rightist hands — a shift driven less by Washington than by crime and a cost-of-living crisis that Lula's two-decade-old platform no longer answers.
