Gabriel Boric, a former student activist, is elected Chile's youngest president

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4. True - although these days they prefer 'soft' coups

Less PR blowback, you know.

Lawfare (the use of trumped-up charges in corrupt courts against adversaries) has become the go-to 'soft coup' method by Latin America's RW against center-left administrations they can't otherwise beat.

And to considerable success: they used it to help elect the disastrous Mauricio Macri in Argentina - and to keep Brazil's Lula da Silva and Ecuador's Rafael Correa from running at all.

Others, such as Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, were removed by impeachment despite an abject lack of criminal charges at all - simply because they could. Bolivia's Evo Morales was ousted outright.

Trump's kind of politics.