Conservative Comeback This Year May Turn Latin America’s ‘Pink Tide’

Paraguayan presidential candidate for the Colorado Party, Santiago Peña (C), celebrates next to with his wife, Leticia Ocampos de Pea (L), and Paraguayan former President Horacio Cartes, after winning the presidential election in Asuncion on April 30, 2023. - Paraguayans on Sunday elected a president from the rightwing Colorado Party, in power for nearly eight decades, rejecting a center-left challenger who had railed against institutional corruption. (Photo by NORBERTO DUARTE / AFP) Photo by NORBERTO DUARTE/AFP via Getty Images

A new door has opened for the right wing in Latin America. Conservative policies and leadership are back on the region’s radar as leftist regimes in the region have begun to lose their luster.

Arriving on the heels of Paraguay’s conservative election win, Chile’s right-wing parties secured the majority of seats to draft the nation’s new constitution.