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Following the Trump administration\u2019s aggressive restructuring of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a striking pattern emerged across Latin America. Left-wing governments, long dominant in several countries, suddenly stopped winning national elections.<\/p>\n

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Center-right and conservative presidential candidates have swept to victory in Bolivia, Chile, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, and Colombia since Trump ordered the cancellation of the bulk of USAID\u2019s programs. While it\u2019s normal to see some political pendulum swinging, the speed and uniformity of the recent shift, coinciding with President Donald Trump neutering USAID\u2019s democracy and governance funding apparatus, raise uncomfortable questions.<\/p>\n

On day one of Trump\u2019s second term, he signed an executive order pausing most foreign assistance as a first shot across the bow. USAID eventually ceased independent operations and was effectively absorbed under the State Department. Secretary of State Marco Rubio oversaw the cancellation of approximately 83 percent of USAID programs, which were worth tens of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID. The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n

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A substantial portion of these now-canceled contracts fell under the Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) . These initiatives election support, legislative strengthening, local governance reforms, anti-corruption efforts, independent media, civil society capacity-building, and human rights advocacy. In short, this funding often helps prop up left-leaning social agendas in foreign countries.<\/p>\n

Daily Signal\u2019s Tyler O\u2019Neil \u00a0during the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in February 2025 that USAID had \u201ctroubling ties to the Left\u2019s dark money network.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUSAID spent millions propping up the Marxist ideology of \u2018diversity, equity, and inclusion;\u2019 the unfair and divisive transgender orthodoxy; and the climate alarmist movement,\u201d O\u2019Neil said, adding that \u201cSome of these grants arguably undermine America\u2019s standing in the world.\u201d (Sign up for Mary Rooke\u2019s weekly newsletter here!<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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USAID awarded a roughly $2 million cooperative agreement in 2024 to Asociaci\u00f3n Lambda in Guatemala to help \u201cstrengthen\u201d so-called gender-affirming healthcare. The agency also awarded funding to support other LGBTQ projects, such as transgender-themed artistic initiatives in Colombia and Peru. While framed as human rights work, USAID funded NGOs to promote far-left ideologies in culturally conservative countries, with DRG\u2019s election integrity arm working alongside them.<\/p>\n

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And for decades, this funding coincided with a rise in left-wing governments coming to power in Latin America. Then the funding stopped, and remarkably so did the chokehold the left had on these governments. Several notable Latin American presidential contests provided zero left-wing victories after the core USAID cuts took effect.<\/p>\n

Center-right senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira defeated candidates tied to the long-ruling socialist MAS party in 2025, ending nearly two decades of its dominance in Bolivia. Chile\u2019s presidential race delivered a victory for Jos\u00e9 Antonio Kast\u2019s right-wing coalition. Honduran voters chose conservative Nasry Asfura. Costa Rica elected right-wing populist Laura Fern\u00e1ndez Delgado in February. Peru\u2019s June contest produced a narrow win for Keiko Fujimori on the right. Colombia\u2019s June runoff saw hard-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella prevail over the leftist candidate.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t that the region hadn\u2019t already seen the mood shift from left to right, as Javier Milei famously won the presidency in Argentina in 2023. Still, the post-Trump USAID restructuring stands out for the complete absence of left-wing political breakthroughs after its implementation. A shift happens slowly over time. And while correlation does not equal causation, the rapid acceleration of right-wing successes only makes sense if the entire left-wing support apparatus was astroturfed by USAID funding.<\/p>\n

Traditionally conservative countries don\u2019t typically elect far-left ideological candidates on their own. The U.S. saw the same thing happen here. In just two generations, the U.S. went from an overwhelmingly conservative nation to throwing PRIDE festivals with stripper poles for kids.<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t an organic shift in culture. It took the full weight of the major institutions (education, government, entertainment, etc.) to make this even somewhat socially acceptable. Thankfully, the pendulum is swinging back to reality. Americans are less tolerant of these behaviors than they were over the last decade, when support for them peaked. (ROOKE: Islamic Group With Terror Ties Tries To Infiltrate Texas GOP \u2014 Media Treating Them Like The Victims)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something structural shifted in Latin America when the Trump administration neutered USAID, and it can\u2019t be ignored. As in the U.S., voter discontent with left-leaning governance found its voice again when it didn\u2019t have to battle upstream against American funding. As a result, right-leaning and populist governments will have a chance to correct some of the damage that has been done.<\/p>\n

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