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Latin America watches with alarm as extremists breach U.S. Capitol Patrick J. McDonnell, Kate Linthicum © Provided by The LA Times Riot police clear the hallway inside the U.S. Capitol after the building was swarmed by pro-Trump insurrectionists. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
In Latin America, a region not unfamiliar with assaults on democracy, the attack by pro-Trump extremists on the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday prompted widespread alarm and dark reminders of political upheaval in the region.
The phrase “GolpeDeEstadoEnEEUU,” (“coup d’état in the United States”), was trending on Twitter as analysts and others likened the political chaos in Washington to historical and contemporary unrest in their homelands.
Trump supporters gather in the U.S. capital to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory over President Trump.
Future regional leaders, he said, may respond to U.S. critiques of their democratic processes with incredulity: “You don’t have moral authority. Your country has serious problems. How are you going to say what I’m doing is bad?”
For many in Latin America, there was considerable irony in the outbreak of political tumult in a nation often accused of fomenting coups throughout the region.
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The leftist Venezuelan government, which the Trump administration has openly sought to remove from power, said in a statement that “with this unfortunate episode, the United States is experiencing what it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression.”