Washington, Feb 18 (EFE).- The great annual convention of the American right, which for years has served as a political platform for the movement of former President Donald Trump, will feature this year the Argentine president, Javier Milei, and the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, turned into unusual celebrities of Latin American conservative libertarianism.
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will take place from Wednesday to Saturday of next week on the outskirts of the city of Washington.
Trump will undoubtedly be the star of an event that will serve to finish drawing up his alliances and loyalties just 8 months before the presidential elections, in which he will most likely repeat as a Republican candidate.
The one who was president between 2017 and 2021 will surround himself with all his faithful squires, from congressmen, senators and prosecutors to the large network of announcers, evangelical pastors and figures of the Trumpist extreme right, in addition to a more extensive collection of international guests than usual. .
For example, Steve Bannon, the media entrepreneur who was Trump’s strategist in the White House and who is considered the architect of the ultra-conservative movement that CPAC represents internationally, will close the event.
In this year of presidential elections in the United States, CPAC can boast of attracting important international guests, such as Milei himself, the new hero of the global far-right after defeating Peronism last December and who has received praise even from billionaire Elon Musk.
The Argentine president is one of the two foreign leaders along with Bukele who will attend this event. The Salvadoran president, recently re-elected, has adopted far-right positions in his populist ideological journey.
Both will travel to Washington only for the CPAC, in which Bukele and Milei will speak on Thursday.
Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and current congressman, repeats at the convention; and Eduardo Verástegui, a very famous actor and singer in Mexico converted into a far-right political activist.
The presence of such prominent Latin American leaders demonstrates the efforts of Trumpism to get closer to the Latino electorate, traditionally Democratic voters, but among whom it already made its way in the 2020 elections.
Santiago Abascal, the president of the Spanish far-right party VOX, will also participate as a speaker at the convention.
At the European level, the europhobe Nigel Farage, promoter of the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union with his party UKIP, is one of the permanent subscribers to the CPAC convention and this year he repeats to be next to his friend Trump, an alliance dating back to 2016.
The Tory Liz Truss will also attend, who was British Prime Minister for 50 days after the departure of Boris Johnson in September 2022 and before also being removed by the Conservative Party in favor of the current leader of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak.
The list of international guest speakers would not be complete without the Israeli quota represented by Simcha Rothman, a Kenésset member with the far-right Religious Zionist Party, part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government coalition.
The most notable absence from the convention, which once served as a forum for conservative and libertarian debate but is now dominated by Trumpism, is that of Nikki Haley, Trump’s only rival in the Republican primaries, defenestrated by the apparatus for confronting the former president.
In fact, on the closing Saturday of the CPAC, what could be the definitive match of the Republican primaries is played in South Carolina if Trump hits the table again in the state where Haley was governor.
The one who will not be missing will be Mike Lindell, known as “My Pillow Guy”, a businessman very popular for his pillow advertisements who has long become one of Trump’s most media allies, capable of attracting a heterogeneous list of characters. EFE
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2024-02-18 14:47:21
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