“We are witnessing the growth of new right-wing parties with popular support”

The Uruguayan historian and writer Magdalena Broquetas San Martín He participated in the International Seminar “Ultras, radicals, new, alternatives? The emerging right wing in Latin America” organized on Tuesday, October 3, by the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of the Republic (UDELAR) of Montevideo, Uruguay and CLACSO.

Analyzing the regional reality, he considered that “the question that is bringing us together, that is generating concern that is certainly not only analytical, but also political, is that –with different national realities– we are in a moment of growth of movements and new right-wing parties with enormous popular support, if we refer to the vote, but also with disruption in what has to do with the narratives, the discourses, concepts that we understood to be historically of the left, of the working sectors, in a class-based reading, and we are seeing an appropriation by the right.”

He also analyzed that "when the right wing is afraid it is because the left wing is growing and sometimes when the right wing is growing it is because the left wing is generating some kind of disenchantment or has not been challenged by the subjects they supposedly represent or speak to."

Seminary "The emerging right wing in Latin America"