The political pendulum is swinging in Latin America again, this time to the right. This week’s election in Argentina confirms the trend.

By the end of last year, five of the last six presidential contests in the region had gone to left-leaning candidates, many openly hostile to the United States and supportive of communist regimes such as Cuba and China. (Not to mention Hamas and Iran.)

The first movement toward conservatism began in April when center-right economist Santiago Peña was elected president of Paraguay. The following month, Chileans overwhelmingly voted for conservative parties to draft a new constitution over the objections of their socialist president.

But the most dramatic shift was libertarian Javier Milei’s victory in Argentina.