At CPAC Mexico, 'orphaned' right tries to build home as region tacks left

Brazilian politician and lawyer Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, speaks as he attends an interview with the media during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Mexico City, Mexico November 18, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Romero

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At an upscale Mexico City hotel on Friday, several hundred right-wing activists and international allies gathered to carve an identity for Mexico's fledgling conservative movement just as governments across Latin America swing left.

The U.S.-based Conservative Political Action Conference, which has boosted far-right leaders like Donald Trump, Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and Hungary's Victor Orban, is holding its first offshoot event in Mexico on Nov. 18-19.