in latin america, latin america still overwhelmingly governed by left dest coalitions, out of 620000000 people live in latin america, about 400000000 of them live on the presidents who call themselves the socialist, or social democrats, shelley, columbia, brazil. but, but the, in many ways and, and the right is confined to countries like el salvador and, and, and, and, and, and origin, tina. but trump has a potential base with in latin america. he has this, there is, but there is the possibility of creating a kind of pen american trumpet, some the spread of culture war politics, anti woke as well as mo, with latin america. it's called, um, the meal. the no, it's in every country and every country that's the, you know, just the anti anti and you know, uh and tied gender. heather, a doc see, you know, this, this clamped down on, on the, on the expansion of, of gay rights and, and abortion rights. and in many ways it's taking expression that's very familiar within the united states. so to me, you basically brought trump to power. this kind of conspiracy is um, this kind of cultural politic

you are directly you you have been making a massive investigation into china's foothold in latin america. many of the host nations view these investments as beneficial to themselves. either due to economic desperation or lack of viable alternatives from the west. how effectually are the latin american governments assessing the long-term threat that china poses to their local economies? dr. berg: thanks for the question. it's wonderful to hear are you consuming our products. we love hearing members reading us. there is a fundamental problem with some of the democracies in the hemisphere. if you sign a deal to get shovels in the ground during your mandate, you might see shovel get in the ground during your mandate, you may win re-election based on the feeling of the country's doing infrastructure things with the p.r.c. the price is later. we need to getter with our messaging game whether it's opportunity costs associated with some of these deals to have leaders understand there are costs to be paid. and they often come two or three mandates later. that's the fundamental problem. and too of