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Trump-style Latin American leaders

Donald Trump met with Jimmy Morales, the President of Guatemala in a context of global resurgence of extreme right-wing populism that has a specific impact in Latin America. Español

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The bust of President-elect Donald Trump is displayed at the wax museum in Madrid.Francisco Seco/Press Association. All rights reserved.

Donald Trump met with the President of Guatemala on February 8.  Officially, topics discussed included the moving of the Guatemalan embassy to Jerusalem and “restoring democracy” in Venezuela.

One day prior to their meeting, it was reported that Trump told Pentagon officials to plan a military parade. He reportedly came up with the idea after having witnessed the Bastille Day parade in France. However, if the project goes ahead, it will be as if the Trump administration was inadvertently taking a page out of the Morales playbook. There are, in fact, many uncanny instances of the Trump and Morales administrations mimicking each other.