Sure, the right is not an homogeneous group, but both the traditional right and the new far-right are pro-USA. Bolsonaro dislikes the American democrats, but not their country. He traveled to Florida when he left his office. Milei, Kast, Keiko Fujimori, Rodolfo Hernandez, Jeanine Añes are not anti-American too. Example of an anti-American far-right politician was Enéas Carneiro, but he has already passed away and when he ran for president of Brazil, he always had single digits. It's hard to find a conservative like Orban, Putin, Erdogan, Khamenei, Duterte in Latin America nowadays.
The left is not an homogenous group. There are leftists more focused on feminist, LGBT+, black people, indigenous people, environment, weed agenda. There are leftists more focused on south-south cooperation. But both are living under the same umbrella: they belong to the same parties, they write in the same newspapers. The left more focused on geopolitics is not against the progressive agenda on social issues: they just don't consider this agenda the most important issue. The left focused on the progressive agenda criticize some domestic issues of some countries in Middle East and Asia, but they still don't have the same approach to these countries the US has.
I agree that Bolsonaro is Anti US Democrats more than Anti-US (though he was definitely anti-Europe as hell since EU is dominated by liberals), but I would argue to you you that Trumpism is currently the largest Anti-US movement that currently exists in the world, intentionally or not.
The guy literally made them look weak in front of the global stage and caused the biggest instability in their democratic system since probably their Civil War. And Bolsonaro supported all this, even leaning to recognize Trump claims about electoral fraud initially lmao
Just imagine, to support a coup in US because you’re more inclined to the side promoting this ideologically. Doesn’t really sound much of a “support” for the country when you’re backing their crumbling into pieces for the sake of your own goals imo. I don’t approve this meddling, but I also can’t help but think it’s hilarious ~karma~ in the back of my head after they did this here in the 60s.
Also, after Trump left office, who Bolsonaro was the most friendly towards? Besides the Hungarian, Israeli and Saudi dictators? He liked Putin strongman attitude. So I think it’s wrong to attribute his position as “pro-americanism”, he wasn’t in favor of any country, he was in favor of the ideology he believed in.
Bolsonarism likes Trump’s idea of US, the racist ideal that Latin American right loved during the Cold War for pushing conservativism, anti-communism and killing minorities in third world countries.
The more their inherent idea of “US is the big right-wing country because of cold war” gets distant as a concept - which will naturally happen due to internal rise of populist conservativism being their biggest threat to their power endurance, pushing the establishment to a hardcore liberal approach - the stronger the trend is for these people to see US the same way as they see Europe: An unbearable “woke” hellscape.
Which is how Bolsonaro himself perceived the “West” - don’t forget his constant provocations towards Macron which had the same intent. It’s the exact nature of the same condescension that Trump had towards Europeans.
See this major Bolsonarist influencer defending BRICS from Macron exactly like the left is currently doing:
https://twitter.com/kimpaim/status/1696288998526689563And now that Macron is all scared publicly calling the “weakening of the Western forces” after the BRICS expansion, they’re mostly getting behind this grouping by default as they hate Macron/Europe with a passion exactly like Bolsonaro did.
This conservative paid bot (who likely considers Lula more of a “globalist” lmaaaao) says Lula will be forced to endure the same ill-intended provokations from Macron that Bolsonaro did, showing way more sympathy towards Lula (her ideological opponent) than to the Western leader, that’s better national cohesion, even the conservative spread propaganda favors Lula on some level:
https://twitter.com/Claudem58121023/status/1696336702858526876I agree with you that it’s still not like that in the rest of Latin America though, probably because they didn’t have a right-wing figure that was so mimicked under Trump’s own image and brand.
In the Spanish Latin America, much of the right still fits into the “old classic right” IMO, they may be extremists in many ways but don’t necessarily represent the same brand that both Trump and Bolsonaro did.
Because we have a “Trumpist right” now fully established as the main right-wing force is exactly how we’re getting to the silent consensus I mentioned earlier. In the past it would be exactly like you said, with the Brazilian right supporting better alignment with the “West” (US, Europe) and Brazilian left supporting better alignment with the “South” (Latin America, Africa, Asia).
The rise of a right that is “Anti-Woke” changes everything though. They don’t necessarily support the same “South” agenda from the left, but many are increasingly suspicious of the ~globalist~ agenda they perceive the West to be pushing onto them.
We’re in best moment ever in history to have cohesion to do everything we ever wanted on the global stage and advance our interests as a major power. It’s exactly why Brazil is the best (and only) main leadership possible for Latin America in the moment.
The right going populist SERVES our interests here because the left has always been populist-leaning as well. That is a silent agreement despite any silly fight about cultural wars you might see around.
It’s the opposite of what happens in US, where you have a populist vs an anti-populist forces fighting, combined with the ideological disagreements they also have. They’re much much more polarized and separated than we ever were and it’s Trumpism that’s the disruptive force for them. Their strategic visions for their country couldn’t be more in conflict to each other.
It’s not a coincidence that we went in radically different paths AFTER ousting the crazy right-wingers in office. Bolsonaro existence and populism VALIDATED Lula’s power as the country leader. Trump existence and populism on the other hand, still works to QUESTION the power of the US establishment.
The left in here still having much of its populist roots instead of whatever liberal wokeness you see in the West or Chile is what in the end saved and strengthened us during these turbulent times.