October 17, 2026 | View in Browser

Good morning,

The right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election earlier this month. If he wins the second round, scheduled for October 25th, Brazil will be the latest in a string of Latin American countries, including Chile, Colombia, and Peru, to have elected a conservative leader in the past year. To understand this “once-in-a-generation shift” to the right, check out Brian Winter’s 2025 essay on the forces remaking the region. He lays out the consequences of the trend and makes the counterintuitive case that U.S. President Donald Trump could be one of the biggest obstacles to its continuation.

Until next week,

Dan Kurtz-Phelan

Editor, Foreign Affairs

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Latin America’s Revolution of the Right

The Forces Remaking the Region in the Age of Trump

By Brian Winter

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