Argentine President Javier Milei has announced with much bombast he is forming a new regional alliance of ten right-wing governments, whose members he hasn’t named, but which will be dedicated to “embracing the ideas of freedom,” and “standing up against the cancer of socialism in all its forms,” including wokism, El País reported on Jan. 2, 2026. As this news service has reported, U.S. Secretary of State “Narco” Rubio first raised with Milei the idea of forming such a regional alliance in order to surround and isolate Brazilian President Lula da Silva, a founding member of the BRICS, an important international and regional leader of the Global Majority, and a voice of sanity against the Trump administration’s war offensive in the Caribbean.
Milei has allied with U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy objectives, especially in the Western Hemisphere, as would his new alliance. He said the group of ten is already coordinating among themselves and will reveal its composition at some future date. In an interview with CNN en Español, to be released on Jan. 11, 2026, Milei offered special praise for Chile’s ultra-rightwing President-elect José Antonio Kast and Honduras’ President-elect Nasry Astura, whom Trump had endorsed. He claimed that people have discovered that “21st century socialism,” which was embraced by Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, and Bolivia’s Evo Morales, among others, was nothing but a “lying, fraudulent farce” that allowed a group of “deceitful bandits” to take power and “impoverish the population.” Wherever this model was applied, “it has been a total failure,” Milei charged.
Although the names of participants haven’t been released, candidates would likely include Daniel Noboa of Ecuador, Santiago Peña of Paraguay, Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia, José Antonio Kast of Chile (who will take office in March), Astura of Honduras, Panama’s José Raúl Murilo, Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, and Milei himself.
