In the next several months, while U.S. voters focus on their own upcoming elections, residents of seven Latin American countries, including two of the most populous — Argentina and Mexico — also will choose new leaders. The results are worth watching because there’s a chance that we’ll see a retreat from the anti-Americanism that has dominated the region’s politics in recent years.
The elections begin next week with the October 15 presidential runoff in Ecuador, where Daniel Noboa, a young businessman, is expected to defeat Luisa González, a stooge of former president Rafael Correa, the corrupt autocrat who fled to Belgium to avoid a prison sentence and subsequently helped sabotage the government of outgoing president Guillermo Lasso.
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