First El Salvador in Central America, then Argentina and Chile in the south, now Colombia in the north of Latin America—and on the other side of the Atlantic, Italy and Spain: everywhere, political actors are emerging who come from different traditions and yet speak almost the same language.
Javier Milei speaks of liberty and the necessary culture war, batalla cultural; José Antonio Kast of order, family, and national self-assertion; Nayib Bukele demonstrates that a state can reclaim lost territorial authority; Giorgia Meloni proves that one can govern on nation, family, and Western identity; and Santiago Abascal is organizing these ideas across the Spanish-speaking world.
With Abelardo de la Espriella’s political breakthrough in Colombia, another president joins the ranks—one in whom several of these strands converge. His public “¡Viva Cristo Rey!” therefore carries signal value: this is not the pious exclamation of a religious president, but the question of whether a new political synthesis is taking shape. El País described the inauguration in Cali as nothing less than a “cumbre de la derecha,” a summit of the Latin American Right: what manifested itself at his swearing-in was an entire milieu—one for which Milei declared, on the spot, that the “winds of history” were once again blowing in the direction of freedom.
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