There’s a conservative tidal wave crashing over Latin and South America—a massive shift away from failed socialist experiments toward strong, Trump-style leaders who put their people first, drain the swamp, and build walls against chaos.
It’s as if the spirit of MAGA hopped the border and ignited a political revolution. From Argentina to El Salvador, Chile to Costa Rica, Honduras and beyond, nations across the region are waking up and choosing freedom over freebies, security over socialism.
Argentina was one of the first to flip the script.
Not long ago, the country was a full-blown socialist disaster. Inflation spiraled out of control, poverty exploded, and everyday Argentines were reduced to scavenging just to survive. Inflation wasn’t just bad—it was an eye-watering 211 percent. Then came Javier Milei.
The chainsaw-wielding libertarian firebrand stormed into office in 2023, channeling a Trump-like, no-nonsense attitude that terrified the political class and energized the people. By 2026, Argentina was no longer circling the drain—it was roaring back. The turnaround began with DOGE-style leadership and brutal honesty about government excess.
The results speak for themselves. Inflation plunged from nearly 300 percent to around 30 percent. Poverty dropped from 57 percent to 27 percent. The economy started growing again. Milei slashed government ministries in half, fired tens of thousands of bureaucratic freeloaders, and rammed through more than 13,500 reforms to unleash free markets.
When Argentina went to the polls for midterms in 2025, Milei scored a landslide—over 40 percent of the vote and double the congressional seats. Voters rewarded him because he understands a fundamental truth about government, which he laid out plainly at the World Economic Forum last year.
Then there’s El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele has become a symbol of what happens when leaders actually enforce the law.
When Bukele took office in 2019, El Salvador was the murder capital of the world. Gangs like MS-13 ran entire neighborhoods, extorting everyone from street vendors to corporate executives. The homicide rate stood at a horrifying 103 per 100,000 people. It was a living nightmare.
Bukele responded with an iron fist. Mega-prisons. Mass arrests. Zero tolerance. By 2026, homicides had collapsed to just 1.6 per 100,000—safer than Canada and even safer than parts of the United States.
Today, Salvadorans walk the streets at night without fear. Tourism is booming, fueled by projects like Bitcoin Beach and international events such as Miss Universe. The left howls about “authoritarianism,” but Bukele’s approval rating remains north of 90 percent. He was re-elected in a landslide because his people finally feel safe. That’s what happens when you prioritize law and order over hug-a-thug policies—a scam Bukele has exposed for what it is. Bite #17
Bukele isn’t just right—he’s a blueprint.
Chile is moving in the same direction, having elected far-right President José Antonio Kast in 2025. He’s pledged to revive the economy, restore security, and dump the progressive ideology that ran the country into the ground. Costa Rica just followed suit, electing its most right-wing president ever, Laura Fernández Delgado. She’s promised to work closely with the U.S. DEA and build a massive prison modeled after El Salvador’s CECOT to lock up the worst criminals.
Add Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz, Honduras, and others to the list. Eight or nine right-leaning governments now dominate the region, eroding decades of progressive pipe dreams.
Yet while Latin America comes to its senses, the United States is still grappling with leftist holdouts sabotaging border security—something Bukele knows all too well. He recently summed it up bluntly on social media:
“If you don’t impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats.”
That warning hits home. Biden-appointed Judge Ana Reyes just blocked President Trump’s move to cancel Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian migrants. Trump is trying to secure the border and end a so-called “temporary” program that’s become permanent amnesty. The judge responded by accusing him of “hostility to non-white immigrants” and freezing the policy.
TPS for Haitian migrants was granted in 2010 for 18 months. Sixteen years later, it’s still in place. Termination was finally scheduled for February 2026, but now it’s paused indefinitely while lawsuits crawl through the courts. This is what undermining sovereignty looks like—deep-state relics clinging to open-border insanity while the rest of the hemisphere moves on. There will be setbacks, but the progress is undeniable.
All of this ties directly into President Trump’s revival of the Monroe Doctrine—making the Western Hemisphere great again. No more foreign meddling from China or Russia. America is back in charge.
Look at Venezuela. On January 3, 2026, Trump authorized a bold strike that ended Nicolás Maduro’s reign for good. Maduro and his wife were captured on narco-terrorism charges and hauled to New York to face justice. An interim government is in place, but Trump is steering the recovery—lifting sanctions, privatizing oil, and securing 50 million barrels for both American and Venezuelan benefit. That’s smart deal-making, not endless nation-building.
Now Cuba is next.
Trump is squeezing Havana’s oil lifeline, slapping tariffs on suppliers like Mexico and forcing the regime to negotiate. According to Trump, talks are already underway with Cuba’s top brass, and a deal is coming—one that could finally end the island’s socialist nightmare, just as Venezuela’s has ended.
After 65 years of communism, Cuba is a wreck—and the images prove it.
That’s why Latin and South Americans are waking up. They’re choosing strength, safety, and sovereignty over ideology, and they’re doing it without endless U.S. handouts.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum summed it up clearly: Trump is still putting America first—and that ultimately benefits everyone else, too.
Even Bill Maher can see where this is going.
Here’s the bottom line: when our southern neighbors take responsibility for their own security and prosperity, America wins. Fewer migrants flood the border because countries like El Salvador are finally safe. Stronger economies make better trade partners. Drug cartels lose ground. Trump’s doctrine empowers nations to stand tall—self-reliant, prosperous, and unapologetically strong.
Contrast that with Canada under Prime Minister Mark Carney. His tenure is shaping up to be a masterclass in socialist self-destruction. Fresh off a cozy January 2026 visit to China, Carney is cutting trade deals with Beijing, hiking defense spending, pushing austerity, and lecturing the world about climate change. At Davos, he warned of a “rupture in the world order” and called on “middle powers” to stand against Trump—all while blaming conservatives and the U.S. for Canada’s economic stagnation.
Good luck fixing your country when blame-shifting is your only strategy.
Carney’s approach is a thinly veiled shift toward more government control, anti-U.S. posturing, and green moralizing that ignores real threats. Canada’s economy is stalling, and it’s heading straight toward the cliff Latin America just climbed away from.
The message couldn’t be clearer. Trump’s vision is winning hearts and nations. Latin America is rising. Venezuela is free. Cuba is on the brink. And while Canada flounders, the rest of the hemisphere is moving forward.
It’s time to make the whole hemisphere MAGA again.