S8 Ep197: Ernesto Araujo and Alejandro Pena Esclusa analyze Latin America's rightward shift, citing Chile's rejection of a leftist constitution and election disputes in Honduras. They attribute leftist defeats to the failure of socialism and credit the "Trump Corol
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
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CHILE, ECUADOR, BOLIVIIA
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS on the world. |
| 0:06.6 | The New World Report. |
| 0:07.7 | All the news is not Caracas. |
| 0:10.3 | A big part of it is, but not all the news. |
| 0:13.6 | We have headlines, and Ernesto, I ask you to comment, |
| 0:16.9 | because you've traveled to all these capitals. |
| 0:18.9 | I just know them from reading. |
| 0:20.4 | Chile elects cost as president in sharp right-word shift. |
| 0:25.0 | That's Reuters language, not mine. |
| 0:28.0 | The election in Chile is a surprise or not a surprise? |
| 0:32.0 | As it's been coming for a while, Chile is associated with communism. |
| 0:37.9 | Yes, John. Well, Chile is associated with communism. Yes, John. |
| 0:39.6 | Well, Chile has been, for a long time, a cornerstone of democracy, free markets, good |
| 0:48.2 | governance in South America, against that wave of Marxist socialism associated with crime, etc. that I talked about. |
| 0:59.9 | But finally, not because Chilean people wanted it, but so much was done in terms of theization of previous governments in Chile that the left |
| 1:12.8 | managed to elect a far-left president, Gabriel Boric. |
| 1:20.1 | But the Chilean political and economic atmosphere and society proved to be very healthy and they resisted |
| 1:29.9 | that sort of attempt. |
| 1:32.7 | They refused a practically communist constitution that the left wanted to impose to Chile. |
| 1:41.3 | They had a referendum. |
| 1:42.3 | They refused that. |
| 1:43.8 | And so I think it was good. For years, |
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