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What's causing an increase in crime that's making LatAm drift to the right? (hexbear.net)

submitted 22 hours ago by AstroStelar@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I looked a little bit at why far-right politicians are so popular in Latin America and every time I read that there was an increase in violent crime the past years and now everyone wants to copycat Nayib Bukele. Why did crime increase in the first place?

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[–] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 18 points 20 hours ago

In Ecuador a rightwinger posing as a leftist, lenin moreno, got into power and started upending social programs and doing austerity shit. Covid 19 hit and made it all worse. Increased violence ensued. Drug dealers from Colombia (a lot from Ex-FARC territory) started moving in and using Ecuador as a major cocaine smuggling hub. Ecuador went from one of the safest countries to one of the most dangerous.