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The only countries in that region that clearly have Right-leaning or Right-wing governments are Jamaica, Guatemala (set for a third Right-wing government in a row come their June election), Uruguay, Paraguay and Ecuador.

El Salvador is a strange one: I assumed that because President Bukele split from the Marxist FMLN that the party that he formed would likely be Leftist or Left-leaning. However, after becoming aware of his Duterte-like strongman stance on corruption, drugs and gangs, I think he is better re-categorized as centrist at Leftmost (possibly even slightly Right-leaning at this point).

Bukele shares in common with Duterte and similar strongmen an abnormally high approval rating. For instance, even the most negative poll results put Duterte above 50% approval, with the most positive poll results putting him around 85-95%. Duterte was reported as having a highly unusual 87% approval rating upon leaving office in June 2022.

See, for instance, this graphic posted on the website of the Philippines' oldest mass media outlet, the Manila Times (https://cdn4.premiumread.com/?url=https://www.manilatimes.net/manilatimes/uploads/images/2022/07/21/90711.jpg).

Notice that the top four leaders (Duterte [87%], Modi [77%], Lee [71%] and Widodo [68%]) are all considered Right-wing to Far-Right from the perspective of a highly Left-biased 'Western' perspective (note that Modi and Lee are—and Duterte is now, though not until the 2010s—also considered Right-wing to a lesser extent in their own countries, Widodo is actually considered Left-wing in Indonesia). AMLO comes in as the first Left-wing leader at #5.

Notice also that the Left-leaning or Left-wing leaders of the major European/Anglosphere countries are grossly unpopular in comparison: Scholz [45%], Biden [40%] and Trudeau [38%] are all below 50%, Albanese is at 51%.

Finally, notice also that Bukele maintains levels of popularity exceeding those of Duterte: every poll puts Bukele above 80%: approval ratings that degenerate ALP, LPC, German SPD and US Democrat Party voters could only ever dream of their leaders having. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_the_Nayib_Bukele_presidency

In short, it is intriguing that Right-wing leaders command a great deal more popularity outside of the 'West', and that polling in these countries seems far more consistent. By contrast, 'Western' countries seem to be in the paradoxical situation of electing people whom either never polled highly to begin with, or whom rapidly fall in the polls after their election.

Of course, Latin America is going in the same direction: Castillo quickly went from President to prisoner, never having been popular in office.