What is Conservative wave?
{{original research|date=June 2021}} [[File:Foro sao paulo members (August 2011).svg|thumb|Map of Latin America that shows countries run by [[Political party|political parties]] in the São Paulo Forum (left-wing group) in red, and parties that are not in the São Paulo Forum in blue. (2011)]] [[File:Foro sao paulo members (June 2018).svg|thumb|Map of Latin America that shows countries run by political parties in the São Paulo Forum in red, and parties that are not in blue. (2018)]] The '''conservative wave''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish:]] ''ola conservadora'' [[Portuguese language|Portuguese:]] ''onda conservadora'') or '''blue tide''' is a [[Conservatism|conservative]] political happening that started in the mid-2010s in [[Latin America]]. It was a reaction to the [[pink tide]]. The happening has been seen as declining since the late 2010s as as second [[pink tide]] has been seen happening. ==Background== After 10 years of [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]] government, the influence of the left began to decrease. In [[Argentina]] the conservative [[Mauricio Macri]] took the place of the [[Peronism|Peronist]] [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] in 2015. In [[Brazil]] there was [[Dilma Rousseff]], who was [[Impeachment|impeached]] with [[Michel Temer]] taking her job in 2016. In [[Peru]] the conservative [[economist]] (person who studies [[economics]]) [[Pedro Pablo Kuczynski]] took the job of the President before him, [[Ollanta Humala]]. In [[Chile]], the conservative [[Sebastián Piñera]] took the job of [[Socialism|socialist]] [[Michelle Bachelet]] in 2018. In 2018 [[Jair Bolsonaro]] was elected [[President of Brazil]], and in 2021, the conservative banker [[Guillermo Lasso]] was elected [[President of Ecuador]]. These events in Latin America are similar to other happenings around the world, such as the election of [[Donald Trump]] as [[President of the United States]] in 2016. The increase of [[Evangelicalism|evangelicals]] in Latin America may have helped start up the conservative wave. However in late 2010 a