While Europe has become ever more hostile to the Jewish state, South and Central America have become ever friendlier. Under President Javier Milei, a Catholic who is also a student of the Torah, Argentina has tightened political and security ties to Israel in what has been called the Isaac Accords. Milei has promised to move Argentina’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. His support for Israel has been vocal in international gatherings.
In Colombia, the conservative Abelardo de la Espriella has now replaced the left-wing President Gustavo Petro, who in 2004 had severed economic, political, and security ties with Israel. Espriella has restored full diplomatic ties, moved his country’s embassy to Jerusalem (becoming the fourth and most populous Latin American country to do so), and recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Guatemala and Honduras have already moved their embassies in Israel to Jerusalem, and have longstanding ties to the Jewish state.
Paraguay has been a consistent diplomatic ally of Israel in South America, and maintains strong bilateral and security cooperation with the Jewish state. President Santiago Peña moved the country’s Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem in 2024.
Costa Rica and Panama are longstanding Central American partners of Israel, with warm diplomatic and economic relations.
The Dominican Republic and Uruguay both maintain close bilateral ties and cooperative frameworks in the economy with Israel.
Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala frequently align with pro-Israel diplomatic positions or historical friendship pacts (with Guatemala famously housing its embassy in Jerusalem).
Venezuela, now that Nicolás Maduro has been removed, has recently renewed technical and consular cooperation with Israel, following past diplomatic freezes under former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, as well as Maduro. The likely winner in the next election is the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado has just returned to Venezuela, and has pledged to relocate Venezuela’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if she comes to power, and to build close diplomatic ties with Israel. This would reverse a 2009 decision that Chávez made. He also severed diplomatic ties with Israel and expelled its ambassador following the Gaza War.
Which brings us to the latest Latin American news — a huge pro-Israel rally in Lima, Peru that no doubt the world’s most famous former resident of Peru, Pope Leo XIV, will have noticed. More on this rally to express solidarity with the embattled Jewish state and the Jewish people can be found here: “Tens of Thousands March in Peru in Support of Israel, Against Antisemitism,” Algemeiner, November 3, 2026:
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Peru on Monday for a demonstration against antisemitism and in support of Israel.
The event, held in Lima, was organized by the Germany-based March of Life movement, in partnership with the Worldwide Missionary Movement, to bring together Christians and the South American country’s local Jewish community to support Israel, fight antisemitism, and remember the Holocaust. According to various reports, 40,000-60,000 supporters showed up.
Israeli Ambassador to Peru Gali Dagan attended and delivered remarks to the tens of thousands of people who were there.
“Since the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian Hamas terrorists brutally murdered 1,200 Israeli men, women, elderly, and children and kidnapped 251 people to Gaza, we have witnessed an alarming escalation of manifestations of antisemitism in different parts of the world,” the diplomat said, before citing examples of resilience in the face of such adversity.
Dagan noted Peruvian diplomats José Gambetta and José Barreto, who during the Holocaust saved the lives of Jews in Europe by providing them with passports to Peru.
“The memory of the Holocaust demands consistency from us: We cannot remain indifferent when intolerance and antisemitism manifest themselves again,” he continued. “Express your support for Israel on social media, share information, stand up for the truth, and speak out against antisemitism.”
“Every message counts. The best response to hate speech is a firm, courageous, and supportive voice,” he added.
A new front has opened in the worldwide war for, and against, the Jewish state. The far left, such as the Green Party in the UK and La France Insoumise in France, has supported the Muslim population in Europe — now numbering fifty million, including those in European Russia, and stands against supporters of Israel. In Latin America, however, there is quite a different attitude, as country after country strengthens, or renews, or initiates, ties with the Jewish state. It’s cause for celebration, as Israeli diplomats now confidently spread out across Latin America to “fresh fields, and pastures new.”
Raja says
Peruvians understand Israel and its history better it seems, but the retards from the Left and islam lack commonsense. Nations that face extinction in the long run might be enslaved to suicidal ideologies as seen in the West.
Cynthia says
The Muslim Brotherhood and Gulf Petro dollars haven’t inundated these countries yet. Holding fast to religion and family is common to these countries and Israel.
Western countries who have abandoned these values become easy targets Islamic propaganda.