Brazil and Mexico Are Tired of Being Global Good Guys
Latin America’s biggest powers have some second thoughts about the liberal international order.
Flagging enthusiasm.
Photographer: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images
Latin American leaders have been famously demure about calling out the transgressions of their peers. Leave it to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to rile up the club of diffident caballeros.
Only three regional heads of state showed up in Caracas for Maduro’s inauguration last Thursday. Paraguay broke off diplomatic relations with Venezuela, Peru placed Maduro on a list of personae non gratae and, in a rare display of neighborly resolve, 19 member nations of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed not to recognize Maduro’s new mandate due to his government’s “negligence to meet the fundamental Inter-American standards of human rights and democracy.”