The rise of far-right governments across Latin America raises questions about democracy, polarization, populism and institutional resilience throughout the region.

The context in which these attacks have occurred favors their normalization due to the neglect of hate speech delivered by public figures of the extreme right.

More than half of the far-right legislators believe that immigrants take advantage of social benefits and public aid and worsen the country's insecurity problems.

Masculinist groups, boys and men who belittle and hate women based on a misogynistic logic, have conquered spaces in various communication channels and platforms.

The most rigorous reflection on the emergence of the new far right rules out the category of fascism to refer to this phenomenon.

Coauthors Luís Carlos Petry and André Bakker da Silveira Some children and young people frustrated with their social and emotional conditions, having lost all hope, seek refuge in misogynistic groups that reinforce their feelings.