Latin America’s Rightward Shift
By
Michael Reid
The right looks well-placed in important votes coming up across the region.
He was an indifferent leader defending an indifferent record. And yet Daniel Noboa won Ecuador’s run-off presidential election last month by a clear margin. It is true that he benefited, perhaps unduly, from his ability as an incumbent to hand out checks. Above all, a majority of Ecuadorians continue to oppose Rafael Correa, the leftist-populist former president behind Luisa González, Noboa’s beaten rival. His victory reinforces two recent tendencies in Latin American politics. First, that incumbency is no longer the burden that it was in the region’s years of rage that saw...
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