“The lesson for me is that scarcity is the ultimate gift to the far right,” Galindo said. “When there isn’t enough housing or public transit or health-care services for everyone, it’s so much easier to point a finger at immigrants than to address the actual causes of that shortage.”
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The country’s leaders avoided a populist backlash by engineering an economic boom. Now the boom is creating problems of its own.
