Protest against the government and corruption in Brasilia, on the 15th March 2015. Image: José Cruz / Agencia Brasil, CC BY-2.0. All Rights Reserved.
All alarms have gone off in Latin America’s democracies. Bolsonaro's triumph in Brazil is the consolidation of an emerging global trend which uses social aversion to politics to establish authoritarian and often openly anti-democratic alternatives.
This is now an established trend in North Atlantic countries and it is slowly but decidedly growing in our countries both on the right, like in Duque's Colombia, and on the left, like Ortega's Nicaragua and Maduro's Venezuela.
