"It’s no secret that Trumpism lives on in Latin America, where leaders with authoritarian tendencies, on both the left and the right, have been borrowing from Trump’s populist playbook — from embracing his most radical and toxic strategies to discredit elections to habitually blasting critics on Twitter.
But perhaps nowhere is Trump’s poisonous impact more evident than in global leaders’ renewed war against the news media. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, and Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador are just three examples of such dynamics in Latin America. All three have constantly used the term “fake news” and “fifi,” Mexican slang that means elitist, to refer to the press. With Joe Biden in the White House, the United States must step back into its traditional role defending the free press in the hemisphere."
