News Analysis
Pockets of far-Left activists who’ve taken up the mantle of U.S. “woke” ideology have popped up in Latin America like political whack-a-moles. Yet their rallying cry has fallen on mostly deaf ears despite a new wave of leftist leaders in the region.
Due to the woke movement’s trademark rigid views on divisive social issues like gender identity, new feminism, wealth distribution, and defunding the police, the activists’ battle cry has been mostly ignored or voted down.
Meanwhile, anti-woke movements are springing up faster than weeds in their wake.
Progressive ideals have failed to find solid footing even among other leftists in countries with a favorable climate for their causes, like the highly Westernized cultures of Chile and Argentina. Both of which have socialist presidents….