Elon Musk, superhero of the Latin American right
- by Global Voices Online
- May 08, 2024
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In times when “the extreme right is all the rage (again),” as political scientist and historian Steven Forti claims, the owner of Tesla has embraced that trend as a convert, considering he supported Democrat Barack Obama only a decade ago.
Musk’s turn to the right “disconcerted his progressist friends, including his first wife, Justine, and his then girlfriend, Grimes,” says Isaacson in his biography. But far from isolating him, it earned him new friends. Several of them are in the Latin American right, where he is idolized as a messiah, despite him being a businessman — a very successful one, but a businessman after all.
In Mexico, his most loyal admirer is Samuel Garcia, the right wing governor of Nuevo Leon. This individual, who shares eccentric traits with Milei, Bukele, and Trump, brags about having persuaded Musk into setting up a Tesla manufacturing plant in Monterrey, an announcement that is yet to be crystallized. Garcia campaigns in a Cybertruck, the luxurious Tesla vehicle that costs around USD 100,000.
“Last year, Elon Musk said that he was going to invest in a Gigafactory in Monterrey, in the country’s north region, near the border with Texas,” explains economist Ernesto del Castillo. “This proximity with Texas is not a coincidence, given that Musk has multiple interests there, in particular the corporate headquarters of Tesla in Austin, and he also has operations near the border with Mexico with his company SpaceX,” the professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey told CONNECTAS.
Despite having set his sights on the state of Nuevo Leon, so far Musk’s investment in Mexico has been Starlink, the high-speed internet company that uses satellites of another of his companies, SpaceX. It is the same service that Milei announced recently in Argentina as a result of his new friendship with the South African. And there is a municipality in the province of Cordoba, Argentina, using Starlink as its internet provider.
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