Paola Ramos
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first heard May 2025
last heard 6 Sep
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And so they are creating the environment for this to happen there.
rising?
It's so fascinating because one of the most popular figures in Latin America is Nayib Bukele.
Like, Salvadorians and Latin Americans love Bukele, have traditionally loved Bukele.
Maybe that support is, maybe you're seeing some cracks now.
But I think Trump learned so much from those figures because there's a moment in which the Cuban consciousness has to kind of figure out what it wants more.
What are you willing to give up?
in favor of your security.
And so that was Bukele's strategy.
It was like, well, you can give up some of your civil rights, but I'm gonna clean up the streets and you're not gonna see gangs anymore.
And it worked and he is beloved and people love Bukele, but it's a real phenomenon that has to be studied and is being studied, which is like, at what point does the authoritarian figure resonate?
And Latin America has a really complicated history of the rise of authoritarians that people have been conditioned to believe that they need them in order to feel safe.
that, in a
Yeah.
I think it's, I mean, but I think it is a
I think even to dig even further, the United States and Latin America conditioned a lot of Latin Americans to believe that there were certain authoritarian figures that were needed.
The same way that we supported Pinochet or that we supported in El Salvador during the Civil War, we supported the right-wing military figures.
There's a history of American imperialism that conditioned so many of us to believe that certain,
right-wing authoritarian figures were needed in order to shoo away those like crazy communists and in a way um a lot of people believed it and now when you come to an america where you have a us government that is telling you everything that you fled from is happening here those crazy leftists are becoming communists those criminals are around you you need me too
And so I do think there's a lot of that happening, which is the Bukele effect, and which at the beginning was Trump.
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