From a distance, Alejo de Gennaro would have fit in at any Trump rally. He wore a MAGA hat and a wide smile as he listened to a parade of speakers slam socialists and decry wokeness. But the text on Mr. Gennaro’s hat revealed a key distinction: “Make Argentina Great Again,” it read. And Mr. Gennaro, a 23-year-old marketing consultant, was standing in the Buenos Aires Hilton, more than 4,000 miles from the nation that had just elected Donald J. Trump. He and nearly 2,000 others were drawn to the hotel conference room by the Conservative Political Action Conference, a fixture in the United States that has long handed a megaphone to leaders of the American right. Now, drafting on the right’s momentum worldwide, CPAC has gone global, aiming to unite right-wing parties and politicians in its traveling showcase. In recent years, the group has held conferences in Brazil, Hungary, Japan, Mexico and, this week, Argentina, where speakers included Javier Milei, the country’s libertarian, budget-slashing president, and Lara Trump, the American president-elect’s daughter in-law and the co-chair of the Republican National Committee. “We’re taking our countries back,” Ms. Trump told the crowd. ImageAlejo de Gennaro, right, traveled 600 miles to see the Argentine president on Wednesday at CPAC in Buenos Aires. MAGA hats were sprinkled among the crowd.Credit...Magalí Druscovich for The New York TimesIn its latest iteration, CPAC is seeking to build something of a political import-export business, seeding Trumpian politics across the globe while also hunting for ideas for use back home and like-minded leaders to amplify. We are having trouble retrieving the article content. Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.jili mk |
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