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Socialism in Retreat? Inside the Massive Free-Market Wave Sweeping Latin America

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The Trump Trend: How a Historic Free Market Wave Is Reshaping Latin America

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the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Washington DC, A massive political shift is sweeping through Central and South America, signaling what experts are calling a monumental shift toward free-market capitalism and the U.S. economic model.

With Colombia and Peru joining the movement following recent election results, seven nations in the region have swung politically to the right in just the last 18 months—a geopolitical phenomenon increasingly referred to as the “Trump Trend.”

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