Who determines where the center of politics is if in Latin America the center appears to have advanced several points on the x-axis? The terms radical and extreme have lost their meaning. Additionally, the media narrative does not allow precise measurement of this new Latin American policy. When talking about Javier Milei, the Argentine with a high probability of being the next president of Argentina, this media uses terms that are strange to say the least. Is a politician who talks about freedom in the economy dependent on public spending a far-right? And where did the various governments take money from the pockets of Argentines through the biggest tax of all, namely inflation? Ideological geometry?
Interesting because the media like The New York Times, CNN and BBC never talked about these extremes when it comes to Cristina Fernández, Nicolás Maduro or Daniel Ortega. Not even when they lived with Hugo Chávez or Fidel Castro. We are talking about Ortega, who had no doubts about the dissolution of the Jesuit order in Nicaragua, the arrest of intellectuals, the condemnation of priests, the revocation of nationality and the confiscation of property. Isn’t that extreme? Maybe this is a new center for CNN. And in that case, what or who remains? If there is an exact science, it’s geometry, and I can’t think of a more inexact one than politics. In geometry, hypotheses are irrefutable through measurable and objective mathematical operations. The goals as CNN says are their assessments and measurements.
Perhaps the public, not only tired of the labels of these traditional media, but also of the increasingly ambiguous left-right dichotomy, caused the interviewer Tucker Carlson to break the record on Xu (formerly Twitter) with 325 million views of his interview with Milei in the first fifteen hours. It even had more views than the one Carlson recently got for Donald Trump, another character labeled by the aforementioned media as radical, extreme, ultra, among other adjectives that have never been used to describe… Chávez!
These left-right labels appeared 200 years ago with meanings that have varied over time and are currently inconsistent with their origins, but are also insufficient to define this new and complex Latin American politics.
Latin Americans no longer vote for left and right, but for politicians who say what the citizen wants to hear at a given moment. So they no longer use the x-axis to determine the center in current politics, an increasingly ambiguous center. Ollanta Humana and Álvaro Uribe, despite being ideologically at the extremes of the old geometry, were similar in their guidelines for macroeconomic stability, fiscal discipline, and investment attraction, which in turn resulted in growth and job creation. Today, these guidelines more accurately measure the results of public policies than geometry.
Geometry does not exist in politics. It is impossible for the old geometry to measure the new politics of the region. (OR)
Source: Eluniverso
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
