Leftist leaders in Latin America have scrapped progressive values and embraced traditional 'family values' as they forge populist coalitions in what a human rights activist called an 'alarming trend.'
Leftist leaders have scrapped progressive values and embraced traditional "family values" as they forge populist coalitions in what a human rights activist called an "alarming trend."
But as the evangelical church began to grow in Latin America, a region that is deeply Roman Catholic, leftist leaders began scrapping progressive values and embracing “family values,” along with leftist economic policies. Angelo said some of the region’s leftist governments became deeply mired in corruption while failing to deliver a sustainable economic transformation. To stay in power, the left at times made strange bedfellows with parties that do not share progressive ideals.
Yet on the economic side, he was big on redistributing wealth. One of his popular slogans at rallies was “Never again a poor man in a rich country!” In Nicaragua, a law was passed in 2006 banning all abortions, eliminating exceptions for rape and when the life of the mother is in danger. President Daniel Ortega, the political front-runner when the law was passed, supported it. Back in the 1980s Ortega, identifying as a Marxist, had favored the legal right to abortions — but has since spoken out against it.Human rights organizations have been condemning the leftist leaders' extreme right-wing positions.
"Those who defined themselves as leaders of the people, such as López Obrador in Mexico or Ortega in Nicaragua, are perpetuating more conservative policies affecting disproportionately 'the people' they claim to represent," Guevara said.
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