Re: Cuba
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:27 am
A look towards Latin America
By: Graziella Pogolotti
In this article: Latin America and the Caribbean , Left , Neoliberalism
November 17, 2019 | 1 |
Something, perhaps insufficient, taught us school programs about Latin America. Superficially, we learned about the conquest and colonization and the heroes of the war of independence. Despite the Martian warning we did not understand the essential reasons for our Americanity. We lacked to understand the concrete substance and the complexities of the social fabric of countries built from the violence that castrated the organic development of their original inhabitants and made them marginalized. Providing arms for the extraction of raw materials introduced the brutal African slavery. In that context, different cultures clashed, became contaminated to a certain degree, although above all the dominance of one over the other was exercised with the sustenance, at the objective level, of economic oppression and, at the subjective level, of a racism that fell on the conscience of many and subsisted in terms of bad memory, harmful to the unity of our peoples. However, the marginalized and forgotten have shown an enormous capacity for resistance. They begin to emerge in very adverse situations. Their voices and their values begin to become recognizable. Against its renovation projects, neoliberalism unleashes economic power and its instrument of action on subjectivities, the monopoly of the media, including personalized work through the sophisticated use of social networks. They begin to emerge in very adverse situations. Their voices and their values begin to become recognizable. Against its renovation projects, neoliberalism unleashes economic power and its instrument of action on subjectivities, the monopoly of the media, including personalized work through the sophisticated use of social networks. They begin to emerge in very adverse situations. Their voices and their values begin to become recognizable. Against its renovation projects, neoliberalism unleashes economic power and its instrument of action on subjectivities, the monopoly of the media, including personalized work through the sophisticated use of social networks.
The events that took place after the triumph of the Revolution gave us an apprenticeship of the deep realities of America, hidden behind the splendid showcases of some of its great cities. After the victory of January 1959, many came to share our work, to exchange ideas, to offer knowledge. Some stayed with us forever. Others found refuge here in lazy days of exile. We discover the cinema and music of Brazil. We were closely touched by the drama of dictatorships that cut lives and produced thousands of missing persons. We familiarize ourselves with the image of the mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. We live with intensity the transformative wave that invaded the continent.
The progressive overturn that extended from Venezuela to the south increased our proximity. Latin America assumed a new language, simultaneously affirming its identity values and proposing, according to the circumstances of each, development models that improved the conditions of existence of millions of citizens as opposed to the formulas established by neoliberalism. For the first time, the voice of our native peoples was heard.
The electoral defeats in some countries baffled us and raised many questions. For some, newly emerging from poverty begin to think otherwise. They endorse the aspirations of the petty bourgeoisie. Regardless of what they have won, they forget that the return of neoliberalism will deprive them of their conquests. The argument is not entirely satisfactory. Changes in consciousness do not occur so quickly, especially when the material benefits add to a systematic work of citizen education. The issue deserves an in-depth study, because social phenomena respond to multifactorial causes.
The elected vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, has narrated the infamous defamatory campaign to which she was subjected by the great press and private television channels. Contrary to all ethical principles, infamy transgressed the limits of his personal life, doubting his mental health. Accused without evidence of all kinds of crimes, she suffered the deterioration of her public image and paid a high cost at the family level with the breakdown of her daughter's physical condition. The propaganda bar undermined the essentials of a government project to rescue the nation, expanding opportunities for the most disadvantaged, boosting science and protecting culture.
The current panorama shows a deep perversion of democratic institutions. The coup d'etats are carried out with the use of other methods. Information transparency implies knowledge and constitutes a way of exercising power through access to reality in its complexity and in the contradictions of the dialectic of all historical becoming. The events in Brazil are revealing in this regard. The fierce media campaign was complemented by the parliamentary coup d'etat perpetrated against President Dilma Rousseff, despite not having been charged with any crime. With the active complicity of the Judiciary, in the name of a just cause, the fight against corruption, the sentences are concentrated in the representatives of the PT. To conjure up his great popular support and marginalize him from the electoral process,
It is what is called judicialization of politics. In truth, the operation responds to the enormous oil reserves in the Brazilian seas and to the raw materials - water included - preserved in the vast territory of the country. The formulas can be even more extreme. In the case of Bolivia, violent groups are organized with the intention of destabilizing the nation in terms of civil war. In an even more sinister background, in a plurinational territory, where the historical demands of the original peoples have been claimed, latent racism is used.
In all cases, the traditional role of the three powers has been annulled. In the name of press freedom, the possibilities of taking measures against the systematic use of slander and defamation are limited. Meticulously prepared, the fascist coup d'etat was consumed, as a tragic turnaround in the development of a national project, to rescue sovereignty, the rich mining resources and to claim the full rights of our original peoples.
It is a lesson we have to learn. Our in-depth knowledge of Latin America remains a pending subject. In the hands of the empire, the oligarchic right acts in a cohesive manner and articulates the use of violence with the systematic use of the media and social networks. By palliating differences in nuances, the left and progressive movements have to forge, in theory and in practice, a common platform against wild capitalism represented by neoliberalism. What is at stake at this decisive moment is much. It is our right to life and the future of our children.
http://www.cubadebate.cu/opinion/2019/1 ... dM1s9VKiM9
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By: Graziella Pogolotti
In this article: Latin America and the Caribbean , Left , Neoliberalism
November 17, 2019 | 1 |
Something, perhaps insufficient, taught us school programs about Latin America. Superficially, we learned about the conquest and colonization and the heroes of the war of independence. Despite the Martian warning we did not understand the essential reasons for our Americanity. We lacked to understand the concrete substance and the complexities of the social fabric of countries built from the violence that castrated the organic development of their original inhabitants and made them marginalized. Providing arms for the extraction of raw materials introduced the brutal African slavery. In that context, different cultures clashed, became contaminated to a certain degree, although above all the dominance of one over the other was exercised with the sustenance, at the objective level, of economic oppression and, at the subjective level, of a racism that fell on the conscience of many and subsisted in terms of bad memory, harmful to the unity of our peoples. However, the marginalized and forgotten have shown an enormous capacity for resistance. They begin to emerge in very adverse situations. Their voices and their values begin to become recognizable. Against its renovation projects, neoliberalism unleashes economic power and its instrument of action on subjectivities, the monopoly of the media, including personalized work through the sophisticated use of social networks. They begin to emerge in very adverse situations. Their voices and their values begin to become recognizable. Against its renovation projects, neoliberalism unleashes economic power and its instrument of action on subjectivities, the monopoly of the media, including personalized work through the sophisticated use of social networks. They begin to emerge in very adverse situations. Their voices and their values begin to become recognizable. Against its renovation projects, neoliberalism unleashes economic power and its instrument of action on subjectivities, the monopoly of the media, including personalized work through the sophisticated use of social networks.
The events that took place after the triumph of the Revolution gave us an apprenticeship of the deep realities of America, hidden behind the splendid showcases of some of its great cities. After the victory of January 1959, many came to share our work, to exchange ideas, to offer knowledge. Some stayed with us forever. Others found refuge here in lazy days of exile. We discover the cinema and music of Brazil. We were closely touched by the drama of dictatorships that cut lives and produced thousands of missing persons. We familiarize ourselves with the image of the mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. We live with intensity the transformative wave that invaded the continent.
The progressive overturn that extended from Venezuela to the south increased our proximity. Latin America assumed a new language, simultaneously affirming its identity values and proposing, according to the circumstances of each, development models that improved the conditions of existence of millions of citizens as opposed to the formulas established by neoliberalism. For the first time, the voice of our native peoples was heard.
The electoral defeats in some countries baffled us and raised many questions. For some, newly emerging from poverty begin to think otherwise. They endorse the aspirations of the petty bourgeoisie. Regardless of what they have won, they forget that the return of neoliberalism will deprive them of their conquests. The argument is not entirely satisfactory. Changes in consciousness do not occur so quickly, especially when the material benefits add to a systematic work of citizen education. The issue deserves an in-depth study, because social phenomena respond to multifactorial causes.
The elected vice president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández, has narrated the infamous defamatory campaign to which she was subjected by the great press and private television channels. Contrary to all ethical principles, infamy transgressed the limits of his personal life, doubting his mental health. Accused without evidence of all kinds of crimes, she suffered the deterioration of her public image and paid a high cost at the family level with the breakdown of her daughter's physical condition. The propaganda bar undermined the essentials of a government project to rescue the nation, expanding opportunities for the most disadvantaged, boosting science and protecting culture.
The current panorama shows a deep perversion of democratic institutions. The coup d'etats are carried out with the use of other methods. Information transparency implies knowledge and constitutes a way of exercising power through access to reality in its complexity and in the contradictions of the dialectic of all historical becoming. The events in Brazil are revealing in this regard. The fierce media campaign was complemented by the parliamentary coup d'etat perpetrated against President Dilma Rousseff, despite not having been charged with any crime. With the active complicity of the Judiciary, in the name of a just cause, the fight against corruption, the sentences are concentrated in the representatives of the PT. To conjure up his great popular support and marginalize him from the electoral process,
It is what is called judicialization of politics. In truth, the operation responds to the enormous oil reserves in the Brazilian seas and to the raw materials - water included - preserved in the vast territory of the country. The formulas can be even more extreme. In the case of Bolivia, violent groups are organized with the intention of destabilizing the nation in terms of civil war. In an even more sinister background, in a plurinational territory, where the historical demands of the original peoples have been claimed, latent racism is used.
In all cases, the traditional role of the three powers has been annulled. In the name of press freedom, the possibilities of taking measures against the systematic use of slander and defamation are limited. Meticulously prepared, the fascist coup d'etat was consumed, as a tragic turnaround in the development of a national project, to rescue sovereignty, the rich mining resources and to claim the full rights of our original peoples.
It is a lesson we have to learn. Our in-depth knowledge of Latin America remains a pending subject. In the hands of the empire, the oligarchic right acts in a cohesive manner and articulates the use of violence with the systematic use of the media and social networks. By palliating differences in nuances, the left and progressive movements have to forge, in theory and in practice, a common platform against wild capitalism represented by neoliberalism. What is at stake at this decisive moment is much. It is our right to life and the future of our children.
http://www.cubadebate.cu/opinion/2019/1 ... dM1s9VKiM9
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