Hungarian authoritarian Viktor Orban is setting his sights on Latin America

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https://globalextremism.org/post/orban-is-setting-his-sights-on-latin-america/



Hungary’s far-right government is looking west. From Budapest to Buenos Aires, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is building alliances in Latin America through a growing network of political allies, think tanks, and conservative conferences. Driving this push is the Center for Fundamental Rights (CFR), a propaganda arm of Orbán’s regime, that opened its first foreign office in Madrid in March 2024. On its website, the CFR emphasizes that Spain serves not only as “a key part of that strategy in itself, but also an invaluable bridge and a gateway towards Latin America.” Its stated goal is to “become a key actor in fully bringing the nations of Latin America, a vital component of our shared Western civilization, into the struggle against our neo-Marxist common enemies.”

Since the establishment of the Madrid delegation, Vajk Farkas, who heads the CFR’s office in Spain and previously served as director of communications at the Office of the President of Hungary, has been actively involved in the region. He has participated in events in Mexico, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, including several Conservative Political Action Conferences (CPAC) held throughout the continent. These gatherings have also featured American speakers such as Melissa Ford, a member of the America First Policy Institute —a think tank created to promote Trump’s agenda— and former Trump administration staffer, and Richard Grenell, the former U.S. ambassador to Germany who now serves as Trump’s special envoy.



The CFR offices in Budapest and Madrid are working to expand their network and strengthen ties with international far-right organizations by hosting visits, meetings, and workshops. Politicians and activists from Peru, Chile, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia have visited Orbán’s think tank in Spain and Hungary. The Madrid office has also hosted figures such as American Matt Schlapp, a prominent Trump ally and chairman of CPAC. In an interview, Farkas said that although Hungary has traditionally sought alliances with Europe and the United States, it has long overlooked Latin America. He described the region as a “reserve of Western civilization and culture,” claiming that its societies still uphold values “that the left is now trying to destroy.”

The CFR positions itself against what it calls “gender propaganda and immigration,” criticizes diversity, and states on its website that “postmodern leftist ideology” has the “ultimate goal of replacing Western Civilization with something radically different.” Farkas emphasized that this kind of transnational alliance is a reaction by “patriotic conservative forces” against the narratives of the international left, particularly on social and issues such as migration and gender and LGTBQ+ rights. The director of the CFR’s Spain office believes their “adversaries” share “a single mindset” and “try to implement the same agenda” in every country they operate in, whether it’s Hungary, France, the United States, or Chile.”



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1. Death throes of the patriarchy

so freaking fugly and dishonorable.