October 2026

6.6 Regional network

  • Eduardo and Bannon: CEBRI says Eduardo was chosen by Bannon as The Movement's representative for Latin America; v8 said "South America", now corrected. They first met in New York in 2018. Agência Pública counted 125 meetings with continental far-right figures and covered Eduardo amplifying Bannon's attacks on electronic voting at CPAC Mexico (Nov 2022). He signed the Madrid Charter (Vox/Abascal's Fundación Disenso, Oct 2020). [V] CEBRI; [V] Pública
  • CPAC Brasil 2024 (Balneário Camboriú, 6–7 Jul 2024): the PL's Instituto Álvaro Valle paid R$250k on 1 Jul 2024 into the Instituto Conservador Liberal chaired by Eduardo. [V] PlatôBR. Gettr's sponsorship of 2022–23 events was not confirmed in the fetched text and is downgraded to [R].
  • Atlas Network: partner institutes and their leaders formed a triangle with the Bolsonaro economic team. The study calls Atlas "a tool of US hegemonic maintenance". [V] SciELO RBCP. Atlas is libertarian and secular, so the tie to the evangelical bloc is a coalition, not shared theology.
  • New in v9: the Rockbridge Network (co-founded by Vance in 2019; members include Peter Thiel per Nexo) attempted a Brazilian arm in 2026 (6.4). This connects Direction 6 to the report's US actors.
  • Milei and the Colombian election: Milei campaigned for Flávio (Gazeta headline) [R]. The Trump-endorsed Colombian win is covered in 6.4.