On September 2021, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia and Equator are ruled by the right. Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru are ruled by the left.
The left can win the elections in Chile in 2021, Colombia and Brazil in 2022 and Paraguay in early 2023.
The right can win in Argentina in 2023, but this election will take place only in the end of the year.
So, we could see a map in mid 2023 in which only Equator and Uruguay are blue, and the other countries are red (using blue for the right and red for the left).
This is amazing because Equator and Uruguay used to be the most progressive countries in the continent. The left stayed in the government for many years in these countries. Correa and Mujica were celebrities for the international left. But recently, Lacale Pou and Guillermo Lasso won very close elections.
Seems pretty straightforward: the internet, lockdowns, corruption and economic malaise have come together to create severe resentment towards the ruling parties, which have never been great but previously could limit exposure by keeping journalists either repressed or within the power structure. So in the traditionally right wing countries like Colombia, Chile and Peru the anti-establishment wave favours the left while in countries with leftist governments like Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina it favours the right.
The only South American countries avoiding the trend (at least so far) are Bolivia and Paraguay. And the Guyanas I guess but nobody counts them anyway
