Can anything halt Latin America’s lurch to the right | FT #shorts
Financial Times·2026-02-16 05:00
Latin America is moving to the right. Conservative candidates have won the presidency in Honduras, Chile, and Costa Rica, and are the favorites in Peru. So why is [music] the right doing well.The dramatic capture by US commandos of Venezuela's revolutionary socialist President Nicholas Maduro last month certainly boosted conservatives. But one of the other reasons is the rapid growth of organized crime. Drug mafias are booming and murder rates have shot up in formerly peaceful nations such as Chile, Uruguay ...