Chile’s Election Consolidates Latin America’s Rightward Shift<br />United States governed that The student movement will continue demanding free education as a basic right on the streets and in Congress.<br />that Students still remember vividly when Piñera said that education was a consumer good,<br />President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela became a regional pariah after the democratically elected National Assembly was supplanted by a new body loyal to Mr. Maduro<br />in August, the most aggressive of a series of steps his socialist party has taken to consolidate power amid a worsening economic and humanitarian crisis.<br />Referring to a regional conference of leftist leaders<br />that dates to the 1990s, he added, "The São Paulo forum’s days are numbered." Among the leftists who remain in power, the two most prominent leaders are accused of resorting to undemocratic means to stay in office.<br />that The population of Latin America is sending a message after the successive failures<br />and crimes of the left in all the countries where it prevailed,<br />The region’s political shift began as the end of a commodities boom a decade ago forced governments to slash spending<br />and as corruption scandals tarred the images of leaders who rose to power by vowing to spread the wealth in a region of stark inequality.
