U.S. Christian Nationalists Are Celebrating Latin American Dictators

U.S. Christian Nationalists Are Celebrating Latin American Dictators
The far right in the United States has alarming connections to the far right in Latin America.

BY JEFF ABBOTT JULY 12, 2024 5:11 PM



One of the most important groups in Donald Trump’s reelection campaign for President of the United States is Christian nationalists. Their influence is best captured in the promotion of the rightwing Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which seeks to implement a Christian supremacist government in the United States.

But increasingly, the thought leaders of Christian supremacy and their supporters in the United States are looking to Central and South America. Among these examples they have embraced are El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, and Argentina’s libertarian firebrand president, Javier Milei.

“In countries like Hungary, Argentina, and El Salvador, bold Christian leaders are defending democracy and fighting corruption,” Lance Wallnau, a Christian dominionist and promoter of the dangerous Seven Mountains Mandate wrote in a post on X. “In El Salvador, a leader embraced Christian values to combat a corrupt Marxist regime, using the military to dismantle gangs like MS-13.”

The Seven Mountains Mandate is a branch of dominionist theology that argues that Christians must take control of key aspects of society, specifically the family, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, and government, in order to guide the country in a Christian direction.

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Javier Milei, brandishing his campaign chainsaw



Nayib Bukele, El Salvador