UNITY OF CONDOMINIUM BOARDS
The Cayapo
1 Dec 2022 , 1:36 pm .
The radical and daring peoples who think of themselves will come out stronger after the great war for control of the planet that the capitalist forces are waging today (Photo: El Cayapo)
Seeking South American unity with these ruling business elites is like maintaining harmony in any building on this planet, without the Nazi-fascist control of the condominium boards.
A LITTLE LOOK AT THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT
All South American countries are mines. There is not one that is not, there is no independence of countries or economies. They all behave like mines. Even countries like Nicaragua, Cuba or Venezuela are under the same aegis, from Patagonia and the Caribbean, to Mexico, which is the southern annex of the United States. A bleak picture is presented, not at all pleasant, regarding the inability of the elites to make political decisions that contribute to radically changing these material conditions of existence over time.
The situation of each of these mines, which we call countries or nations, for some time perhaps was the same scenario as today: puppet elites looking at the foreign model as their god to which they pay homage, blaming other puppet elites neighbors of the evils that each mine suffers, where each one had their own propaganda and the same story that we are a very rich country but very poorly administered by the governments in power, with its corruption, drug trafficking; their same schools, universities, arts, sports, science and other accessories as franchises, repeating the myth of how beautiful Europe and the United States are, while they deceive us with the hackneyed tale that peoples are lazy, lazy, indecisive, but these lazy, vague and indecisive people fill the ships, trains, trucks, planes, oil pipelines, gas pipelines,
The way in which we are trapped in the world capitalist economy is by playing the obligatory role of a dependent mine, that is, we do not have our own decision, because we are connected to a mode of production that decides what role we play in the world concert, not only in the economy. and finance, but in the field of culture in general.
The politicians, the business elites that were formed and are still being formed on this continent, are elites of European origin and settled here as administrators of the mines, then their descendants ended up staying and conforming as an elite but always hating this territory and its people. and longing to live as great gentlemen abroad.
When the material conditions of existence of colonialism on the continent changed and capitalism was established after the wars of independence, these elites who stayed behind sent their children to train in Europe first and then in the United States as businessmen, athletes, artists, professionals, politicians, academics, scientists, who copied not only knowledge but all prejudices to the letter, reaching the point of wanting to apply theories such as washing or purifying blood, bringing European men to clean the blood of Indians, blacks or mestizos and riveting the story of the inferiority of race behaved in blacks, Indians and mestizos.
After the appearance of the oil trade, the United States was very well positioned, and it was when they directly issued and put into practice the so-called law of the big stick brandished by the North American president Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, with the slogan "America for the Americans": for North Americans, of course. In other words, the United States became the owner of this continent, turning it into its backyard, "everything that exists is mine", no other power (in this case, Europe) can get a hand in it, and it begins to control the resources of these mines that before they had been controlled by Europe.
So, these elites were formed under this circuit, under the tutelage of academic, artistic, sports, political, philosophical and of course business power, imitating Western humanist culture. The entire business-political direction of this continent will be formed in Europe first and then the last 100 years in the United States under the protection of the two great North American parties, Republican or Democratic. All right-wing politicians drink from those waters; the left, with honorable exceptions, almost all of it has been co-opted by the intelligence mechanisms, whether they call themselves Israelis, Americans, English, or other security forces, whether they are from Spain, France, or Germany, and they work furtively, some shamelessly and others without knowing it , because they give them prizes, positions, scholarships,
When Bolívar raised the idea of creating a great nation or a conjunction of nations, of countries, going from California to Patagonia, it was because he understood that a political-legal-business revolution was taking place, that is, the bourgeois revolution in the world. , where the traditional forms of exploitation known as colonial feudalism tended to disappear and the great powers and their corporations would prevail. That the only way to confront that was to become an independent nation, a union of independent nations that would create a balance in the correlation of forces, so that they could not invade us, because he explained very well that the United States was growing and that it was not going to stop in those 13 provinces.
In fact, the United States had already bought France, in 1800, for 15 million dollars, the entire colony of Louisiana, including New Orleans, and not 100 years have passed since then when it became the owner of half of Mexico; He takes California and Florida from the Spanish and takes over Puerto Rico; He bought the Isthmus of Panama from Colombia at gunpoint for $25,000 and annexed Guantánamo in Cuba; From there, invasions, blackmail, submission, abusive contracts and divide and conquer are institutionalized in the new recolonization that capitalist industry imposes on this continent.
From now on, there is no possibility of unifying or creating a common plan between these mines, because each mine works separately and generates elite interests in each mine, who only care about their own plate of food. Argentines, Chileans, Venezuelans, Colombians, Cubans, everyone sticking their heads in their food plate, nobody is interested in the neighbor, but that their food plate is more full than the neighbor's. Why? Because the transnationals, through criminal investments, keep a cigarette stuck in each mine and suck and release crumbs. Those crumbs are the ones that are absorbed by the business, political, artistic, religious, academic, and professional elites; What they want is for the cigarettes that are in the other mines to enter theirs, so that they have more crumbs.
The Chevron case is the best example that we are not economically independent. The difference is that the Venezuelan government has a political intention to break the chains that bind us to the carousel of human capitalism. There are some people, either out of ignorance, fear, hunger or because they simply belong to the puppet suitcase of world capitalism, who throw stones at the decisions of the Venezuelan government, accusing it of wanting to give oil to the transnationals, as if they never in 100 years the oil would have been given away to those corporations, and those presidents who tried to negotiate under other conditions were overthrown by the capitalists. Even Commander Chávez was removed for the same reason.
For all these doomsayers who want everything to go wrong so they can keep their plate of food, we must tell them that this, like the other governments of these mines where we live, has its hands tied, and some even their brains, because the contracts that maintain dependency are not only technological or legal, but are also supported by the firepower of human capitalism. Everyone wants the government not to negotiate with the imperial power, but no one wonders where the state-of-the-art weapons industry is controlled by the Venezuelan nation to combat the armies of the imperial power, where the nuclear bombs, where the hypersonic missiles, where the electromagnetic weapons, where the great and complex propaganda apparatus, where the Internet itself,
Or are the Russians or Chinese snoring because their thyroids are screwed up? No, it is because they are in conditions of military superiority with respect to Europe and the United States, and that allows them to say to the lords of controlled chaos "you can not impose any prices on me unless you are willing to murder your peoples in the name of the money".
The Venezuelan government tries to overcome the conditions of vassalage with dignity and this has led us to suffer everything we already know, because world capitalism does not want to allow us to be independent and to be able to do with the existing resources in the territory what we deem convenient for the population.
Every once in a while a president like Chávez appears, who says "we are going to unify Latin America", and all the scavenger elites attend the call but it is to see what they can suck from the other vassals. The pod becomes demagogic because nobody is interested, everyone wants to be part of it, it is for the photography, so it is convenient for each president, that they see that he is doing international politics, but they do all this so that they give him more silver, to make the job easier for the common enemy. A president of that who is a CIA militant goes and informs the agency or they simply drag contradictions to disrupt such a union, such a call, in this case to screw Chávez, Maduro or Fidel Castro.
That is the role that all these political leaders play; then, unity will never be possible with the existence of these vassal elites, that is the pure truth. That is where the problem comes from overcoming unity as a mere declarative, demagogic fact, which only serves to make the elites bomb inside each of their mine-countries, making the slaves believe that they work tirelessly for us.
The loneliness of each one of the mines is the constant, where the union is an ideological fact that only serves for grandiose speeches and for a gang of female, male and LGBT+ criminals to live at the expense of their peers in each territory-mine in where they work hard to defend the interests of their foreign masters, call them transnationals, corporations or investors. As long as these elites are fighting over the same plate of food, the usual investors will keep us subdued, no longer with the sword and the cross, but with the eternal debt that they force us to carry from generation to generation until the absolute ruin of the future.
The thing is that there really are investors-invaders who, in the name of the crown, the power, the transnational, the corporation or the empire this or that, have been invading and looting for 500 years, murdering everyone who gets in their way. in front of. Regardless of what they destroy or not, their goal will always be loot. This situation generates relations between the invaded and the invaders. The first thing is that elites settle in each territory, initially made up of representatives of the investor-invaders; This elite is made up of mediocre artists, intellectuals, scientists, academics, politicians, soldiers, professionals, cerebral eunuchs in general, who over time feeds on even more castrated Creole descendants, until the origins are lost in time and we end up believing that the internal elites are Creoles and we call them internal or national bourgeoisies, when they really are crumb pickers and repressors of their own peers, without understanding that ideologically (whether they were born in the country or not) territory) are foreigners who defend the interests of the invaders-investors. But not only that, but that ideological belief extends to the slaves that produce surplus value directly, who end up preaching and assuming that we can also be powerful like the masters. without understanding that ideologically (whether they were born in the territory or not) they are foreigners who defend the interests of the invaders-investors. But not only that, but that ideological belief extends to the slaves that produce surplus value directly, who end up preaching and assuming that we can also be powerful like the masters. without understanding that ideologically (whether they were born in the territory or not) they are foreigners who defend the interests of the invaders-investors. But not only that, but that ideological belief extends to the slaves that produce surplus value directly, who end up preaching and assuming that we can also be powerful like the masters.
Since the invaders or bankers or insurers financed the invasion of these lands and Africa and imposed their vision of the world and their culture of crime and looting on us. Since then, unity has become impossible other than the imitation of getting together to see how the different slave elites who govern in the name of their investors-invaders on duty who loot from time to time and from time to time are sold to the highest bidder, it is tell, always, to the people and the territory to see what crumbs they collect after the crime against their own fellow men.
They do not work for everyone, because they have the beliefs or ideologies that their masters have instilled in them. For example, the idea that the workers or the poor are a natural fact that should be used as merchandise to generate wealth without understanding or drooling over the true nature of the exploitation of the entire species, to maintain the current system that, as we know, feeds on everything alive in order to exist and that as long as it tries to produce more with its same tools to increase the plate of food where the owners eat with a large spoon, and with a smaller one their lackeys or Butlers who submit to us will only increase the size of the owners' plate of food, while we fall for the crumbs they leave in each country-mine, giving continuity to what already exists.
It is not with ideology but with truths that we are going to get out of the quagmire into which the capitalists and their mediocre lackeys have plunged us, who are not brutes, on the contrary, they are very intelligent; and like rum, each one has their style in the regions, and they know how far they can go. That is why they never put the big spoon in the owners' plate, but in that of the crumbs of the poor. These elites made up of small-time swindlers who live in all regions of the states and international organizations doing the dirty work for transnationals in all areas from war to the environment, these elites who don't care about being progressive, communists, socialists, progressives, ecology, NGOs, democrats, center-left or right, ultra-radical left or right, artists, academics,
The very clear thing with these dragged elites is that they will never, ever, put themselves at the service of the subjugated species, whatever they say, however they speak, be it in Sanskrit or gibberish, they will always, always, be at the service of the masters of the world, be it in Africa, Asia, America, Oceania, Europe; from the UN or any of its derivations, these bureaucratic officials will be betraying their territories and their people, therefore, let us never think that any unity will be achieved with them, because they always have the sharpened dagger to stick it into those who get out of the script of the habladera of straw in favor of the poor and evicted.
All international organizations are infested with this mediocre misery that wears the guise of intellectual, expert, scientific, wise, learned, hunting for opportunity, fighting like hyenas for the piece of carrion that from time to time the owners throw at them, who at their Sometimes they hate them for bootlicking, and thus they treat them as disposable beings, that from being so vile or servile, sometimes someone wins the lottery of having a drink with an owner and nothing more.
Intellectuals, businessmen, politicians, artists, each with their own language and actions, have been a reinforcement of the humanist culture in these territories where every day the idea of mine is strengthened and there is zero possibility of being the necessary collective we, but rather Ridiculous individualism is promoted but in extreme poverty, imitating every intellectual product that emerges and becomes fashionable in the West. Like imitating monkeys, these puppets and marionettes lend themselves to the play in search of prizes, contests, conferences, scholarships, trips or diplomatic positions, even some fifth-columns disguised as chavistas privately laugh at us and, of course, at Chávez and Maduro because, according to their wisdom,
This absence of a substantial and transcendent perspective has not allowed them and will not allow them to envision the need to be others in another culture, because they are convinced that no other thought is possible, no other way of living than the humanist one, even those who condemn it. from the capitalist mode of production, because they perceive it to be mismanaged by bad men who do not like the poor. They do not understand that if anyone knows of our importance in this world it is the capitalists, because they know that without us as slaves they would not be possible, not only because we produce all the merchandise that makes them rich, but also because we buy it from them.
South America is a continent almost in the hands of controlled chaos. With the exception of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, all other countries are destroyed as states or under siege by transnationals. It is no secret to anyone that Venezuela and its Bolivarian government currently represent an oasis of dignity in the world, it is a country that has a plan and a diplomacy not only for itself but also for other peoples, because it understands that leaving Going forward means leaving the barracks in which we slaves have always been stowed away and starting to look at our neighbors looking for ways to use resources for the collective benefit.
For this we need a team that generates knowledge based on their own needs to increase the diverse food plate in each territory and that helps each dish to be substantial and fair for all the inhabitants. Stop believing in the political businessmen, artists, academics, intellectuals, scientists, generals of each country, who tell us that on the same plate we can eat the crumbs that the invader-investor leaves behind and not continue believing at face value all the stupidity disguised as a cathedral or absolute wisdom emitted by failed economists, administrators, experts in other countries that governments keep hiring to advise their own.
Unity can never start from that principle of ideologically distributing a plate of food, but in being diverse in the different plates of food, where working together means that we strengthen the various plates of food in each territory. When we say food, it means clothing, health, knowledge, entertainment, art, for everyone who needs it and not repowering the old capitalist industrial apparatus that only makes us fatten the old debts with which we have been subjected.
Unity is looking for mechanisms that show us how we are, different from the invaders-investors, that our interests are radically different from the interests of those who have been robbing us for 500 years. That it is not possible to get out of poverty if we do not understand that it is not with help or by repeating the eternal economic plans of economists who study past books that have only served to hide the true reason for the exploitation of our territories.
Unity is that politics be carried out with the peoples of each of these mines, understanding ourselves as participatory protagonists, that common policies be generated that can link the peoples of these mines and from there, consider then the possibility of a common plan where resources become common, concepts become common, philosophy becomes common, the mode of production becomes common, production relations become common among peoples. But first we have to get rid of the elites in each territory. The peoples have to come together based on the collective interest; It is the only way that we can get rid of the dominance of the great transnational capitalism in this continent, there is no other option, the rest is demagogy, it is straw talk, it is spending money from each mine to satisfy the ego of each internal leader of each mine. That is the real truth.
There will never be unity under existing conditions. That letter that they sent to Maduro is pure straw from demagogues, unemployed looking for salaries. Those who sign the letter are sworn enemies of Chávez and Maduro, and therefore of us as a people. None of them came together, in fact, they even went so far as to jerk off Chávez and Maduro, they distanced themselves and they all kept their mouths shut, and when the verguero caught on they left their wigs. Nobody dared to speak well of Maduro in 2016-17-18-19-20-21, and now, how come you love Maduro overnight, what is that, where does all that come from? Ah, from the little trickle that they are going to get, or they think they are going to get, because Maduro is gaining importance at this moment, because he is the only one who can move a vigorous economy on the continent, because none of them can do it,
They are simply defeated from the brain, they have no ability to face. The only one that has the capacity to confront it is the Venezuelan government, which is strong despite the great beating. It is standing still and speaking with its own voice, while these elites do not have a political plan to get out of the quagmire into which human capitalism has plunged them, because their economic measures are the same old recipes or formulas as always, elaborated by techno-bureaucrats to defend finance and the capitalist economy, rehabilitation of banks, companies and other institutions that have never worked, as long as it is not the same as always, sinking us into the greatest poverty. Now they look at Venezuela because they know that the country is going to be strengthened, because Venezuela plays a fundamental strategic role in this continent in all senses: historical, philosophical, economic, political. So, that's why these guys are rushing over here to lick Maduro's boot.
COMMENTS FOR THE BEGINNING
Comment 1. There are some colleagues who are concerned because President Maduro was asked to take charge of the Unasur unit, but there is no need to worry because this suitcase of puppets does not make decisions to write an original letter on their own. This letter is a cut and paste from a political laboratory that seeks to create confusion in the face of the events that are currently occurring. The points of the letter are a dusted copy of the old formulas with which they always ended up closing their businesses in favor of the transnationals, the old and today revamped techno-bureaucrats who have always charged well for their felonies against the peoples of the world, so that the bad intention of the letter is not the work of the mediocre but of the plans of the owners of the puppet house.
Comment 2. We South Americans and Caribbeans must ask ourselves: Unity between whom and for what? Today that the great planetary slit is open, these questions are timely, and only we can give you answers. It is time for us to have our own interests so as not to be confused with the interests of the owners and their puppets, the elites that control the states and institutions that are used for our submission. The case of Haiti is pathetic. From this same continent, officials and governments lend themselves to doing the dirty work of the human capitalist empire that for more than 200 years has been taking revenge for the defeat that the Haitians inflicted on the French, English and Spanish.
Comment 3. "Unity, unity, unity!" is the cry that is shouted with frenzy from all the elitist corners of the South American continent. All united against the wolf that wants to devour us, but there is always a but. It turns out that those who scream unity like frightened chickens are the same ones who, until recently, wanted to immolate on the pyre of the empire who are now being asked to take charge of "unity, unity, unity, take charge, face the wolf, sacrifice yourself for we businessmen, politicians, the wise, who have had the courage to come to request your help".
The radical and daring people who think of themselves will come out stronger after the great war for control of the planet that the capitalist forces are waging today.
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The Volatility of US Hegemony in Latin America – The Pink Tide Surges, 2018-2022 (Part 1)
DECEMBER 3, 2022
Map of the Western Hemisphere with South America colored in red, an “Uncle Sam” can be seen in a corner pointing at it. Photo: Prensa Latina.
By Roger D. Harris – Dec 1, 2022
Latin America and the Caribbean have again began to take on a becoming pink complexion, all the more so with June’s historic electoral victory in Colombia over the country’s long-dominant US-backed rightwing and a similar reverse in Brazil in October. These electoral rejections of the rightwing followed left victories last year in Peru, Honduras, and Chile. And those, in turn, came after similar routs in Bolivia in 2020, Argentina in 2019, and Mexico in 2018.
This electoral wave, according to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, speaking at the Climate Summit in November, “open[s] a new geopolitical age to Latin America.” This “Pink Tide” challenges US hemispheric hegemony, whose pedigree dates back to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine.
The tidal surge
The metaphor of the “Pink Tide” aptly describes the ebb and flow of the ongoing class conflict between the minions of imperialism and the region’s popular forces. Back in 1977, the region was dominated by the “rule of the generals.” The infamous US Operation Condor supported explicit military dictatorships in all of South America, except for Colombia and Venezuela, and in much of Central America.
Then the tide began to turn with the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 1998. By 2008, almost the entire region was in the pink with the notable exceptions of Colombia, Mexico, and a few others. A decade later, a conservative backlash left Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Cuba, and a lonely handful of other states on the progressive side. But that was to change by midyear 2018.
Mexico
The first blush of pink to the current wave dates back to July 1, 2018, with Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s landslide victory in Mexico. Many believe his two previous runs at the presidency were stolen from him. Affectionately known by the acronym AMLO, his broad coalition under the newly formed MORENA party swept national, state, and municipal offices and ended 36 years of neoliberal rule.
Mexico’s list to the left was significant. It is the second largest economy in the region and the thirteenth in the world. Mexico is the second largest US trading partner after Canada and before China.
AMLO has made important foreign policy initiatives independent, in fact defiant, of the US. He conspicuously invited Venezuelan President Maduro as a guest of honor to a major Mexican holiday celebration. When Biden called a “democracy summit” for the hemisphere last June but did not invite Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, AMLO boldly led a boycott, which largely sabotaged the affair. And AMLO has been a strong proponent of regional integration promoting CELAC and other multi-national institutions.
Argentina
A year after AMLO’s ascendency, the rightist Mauricio Macri was replaced by the left Peronist Alberto Fernández on October 27, 2019. The flip from right to left was a repudiation of Macri’s subservience to the IMF and austerity economic policies, which had generated mass opposition.
Bolivia
Two weeks after the election in Argentina, the left suffered a major body blow on November 10, 2019, when a coup overthrew leftist President Evo Morales in Bolivia. The coup was backed by the US with the complicity of the Organization of American States (OAS) under the leadership of Luis Almagro, a sycophant to the Yankees.
Evo, as he is popularly called, was the first indigenous president in the majority indigenous country. He barely escaped the coup violence when a plane supplied by AMLO whisked him to safety in Mexico.
Evo’s vindication came a year later on October 18, 2020, when his fellow Movement to Socialism (MAS) Party member Luis Arce won back the presidency by a landslide. Evo then returned from exile and has since played an international role as a spokesperson on climate change, regional integration, indigenous rights, and other left issues.
Perú
Then seven months later, a person from a Marxist-Leninist party took the presidency in Peru on June 6, 2021. When the rural schoolteacher and strike leader Pedro Castillo emerged as one of the two contenders in the first presidential election round, he was virtually unknown. The international press even struggled to find a photo of the future president.
Castillo won the final election round against the hard right Keiko Fujimori. Castillo’s victory spelled the end of the Lima Group, a coalition of anti-Venezuela countries. Strategically, the Pacific rim of South America, which had previously been entirely populated by rightwing US allies, now had a leftist in its midst.
Nicaragua
The left trend was further consolidated five months after the success in Peru when the ruling Sandinista Party (FSLN) in Nicaragua swept the national elections on November 7, 2021. A year later on November 6, 2022, the Sandinistas were further affirmed with a sweep of the municipal elections.
Nicaragua had been recovering from a violent unsuccessful coup attempt in 2018 involving the Catholic Church and other rightwing elements. Having failed to achieve regime change by helping to instigate and back the coup, the US has since tightened the economic screws on the third poorest state in the hemisphere ratcheting up unilateral coercive measures.
Despite the illegal US sanctions designed to punish its people, the socialist government has done so much with so little. Nicaragua’s 8.3% economic growth during the pandemic is among the highest in the region and indeed the world.
Nicaragua is the safest in the entire region and among the safest internationally. Education and healthcare are free. With the best roads in Central America, the previously neglected and isolated Caribbean coast is now more fully integrated with the rest of the country. And an unsurpassed 30% of the national territory is in autonomous zones for indigenous and Afro-descendent peoples. Contrary to US propaganda, polls show President Daniel Ortega is popular with his constituents.
Venezuela
Then two weeks after the left electoral affirmation in Nicaragua, the same was repeated in Venezuela. The ruling Socialist Party (PSUV) swept the regional and legislative elections on November 21, 2021.
Although the US and a handful of its most sycophantic allies still recognize the Trump-anointed Juan Guaidó as “interim president” of Venezuela, the vast majority of states accept Nicolás Maduro as the lawful president. The hapless Mr. Guaidó has the highest disapproval ratings among potential opposition candidates for the 2024 presidential election. While polls show that if a snap election were called, Maduro would win.
Meanwhile, Biden, under pressure to ease fuel shortages of its own making, is ever so slightly easing Trump’s draconian sanctions. Chevron is resuming limited operations in Venezuela and some of Venezuela’s $20 billion of “kidnapped” assets in foreign banks are being released for humanitarian projects.
Honduras
Just a week after the Venezuela election, the sweetest left triumph was achieved. Xiomara Castro became the first woman elected to the presidency in the history of Honduras on December 1, 2021. Her husband, Manuel Zelaya, had been overthrown in a coup on June 28, 2009, that was orchestrated by US President Barak Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Castro replaced over twelve years of “nacro dictatorship,” a well-deserved opprobrium that is confirmed by the US government itself. Back in 2009, the facts were so clear that even the accomplice Obama had to admit Zelaya was ousted in a “coup,” though he weaseled that wasn’t a “military” coup.
The US then backed a succession of illegitimate presidents, including the most recent past President Juan Orlando Hernández, with generous military, financial, and political support. Even the OAS, which is essentially an arm of the US masquerading as a multi-national body, questioned the validity of his election. Then once Castro won, “JOH” was quickly extradited to the US and thrown into prison for importing vast quantities to cocaine to the US.
Formerly known as the “USS Honduras” for its role as the US surrogate in Central America, the new Castro presidency will be charting a new course for Honduras.
NATO in the Amazon: Petro Plays with Fire
Chile
Less than two weeks after the defeat of the right in Honduras, Gabriel Boric won the Chilean presidency on December 19, 2021, campaigning under the slogan “neoliberalism was born in Chile and here it will die.” He replaced the rightist Sebastián Piñera who, incidentally, was the richest person in Chile.
A former student leader turned politician, the 36-year-old Boric came out of the mass anti-neoliberal protests of 2019 and 2021, which mobilized a significant portion of Chile’s population. Boric had beaten the Communist Party candidate in the progressive Apruebo Dignidad coalition primary and went on the defeat José Antonio Kast in the presidential election.
To call Kast a far rightist would be an understatement. Sometimes leftist rhetoric too loosely accuses opponents of being fascists. In the case of Kast and his politically active brothers, however, the term is perfectly apt. Their father came from Germany and was an actual member of the Nazi Party.
Colombia
What happened next was truly historical. Former leftist guerilla (since moderated toward the center-left) Gustavo Petro and his VP Francia Márquez, an Afro-descendent environmentalist, were the first progressives to ever win in Colombia on June 19th of this year. Their Pacto Histórico coalition had come out of the immense popular protests of 2019 and 2020, which featured indigenous and Afro-descendent participation.
Colombia, formerly known as the “Israel of Latin America,” had long been the leading US regional client state and the largest recipient of US military aid in the hemisphere. This election promises to upset that role and break with the influential rightwing former President Álvaro Uribe and his successors.
Outgoing rightist President Iván Duque also made history as Colombia’s least popular president. He immediately joined the rightist Wilson Center in Washington, changing job titles but not, in effect, employers.
Brazil
Colombia was a huge splash in the region, but what ensued in Brazil was a crashing tidal wave of global proportions.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known colloquially simply as Lula, was first elected in 2003 and left the presidency in 2010 with soaring popularity ratings. He was succeeded by fellow Workers’ Party member Dilma Rousseff, who was reelected in 2014. Two years later, the right-dominated legislature used “lawfare” to oust her from office.
Lula was then a victim of lawfare himself. Although the most popular would-be presidential candidate, he spent April 2018 to November 2019 in prison. This allowed Jair “Trump of the Tropics” Bolsonaro to assume the presidency. Then in a spectacular comeback, Lula beat Bolsonaro in the next presidential contest on October 31, 2022.
Sea change in Latin America and the Caribbean
The progressive electoral victories decisively tip the regional geopolitical balance to the portside. The rank order by size of the largest regional economies is Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Peru – all of which are now on the left side of the ledger. Brazil’s is the eighth largest economy in the world.
Brazil’s inclusion in the BRICS transcontinental alliance foreshadows an emerging international multipolar independence from the west. Originally including Russia, India, China, and South Africa, BRICS+ may expand to include Argentina, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and others.
Lula campaigned on creating a regional currency, the SUR. Maduro, too, has called for a regional currency, which would challenge US dollar dominance.
Lula, Maduro, and their fellow travelers promise to be a spokespersons for the poor at home, for regional integration (reviving UNASUR and reinforcing MERCOSUR), and internationally for multilateralism (addressing climate change and possibly even helping to broker a peace in Ukraine).
To be continued…
Part II addresses the explicitly socialist countries (Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua), the lessons of Haiti, and the emerging role of China.
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Government of Peru denies alleged coup plans
The Peruvian government "absolutely" rejected that it is plotting a closure of Congress to avoid a vacancy for President Castillo. | Photo: EFE / Presidency of Peru
Published December 4, 2022
The Peruvian head of state issued a statement to ratify his commitment "to democracy, the rule of law and the Constitution".
The Government of Peru expressed this Saturday its respect for democratic principles and asked the population not to fall into speculation "about the alleged breakdown of the constitutional order."
"The Government is respectful of democratic principles, which is why we call on all good Peruvians not to fall into speculation about an alleged breach of the constitutional order," the Council of Ministers said in a statement posted on its Twitter account. .
"The Executive reiterates its absolute respect for all the powers of the State," added the tweet.
This Saturday, Peruvian opposition sectors spread the rumor of an alleged coup d'état and affirmed that the Government of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo would be planning the closure of Parliament, to avoid an eventual dismissal of the president.
Congressmen from the South American country are scheduled to discuss next Wednesday a third vacancy motion (removal) against Castillo for alleged moral incapacity.
The Peruvian head of state used his Twitter account this Saturday to declare that "at a difficult time for the country, with a crisis due to the fifth wave of the pandemic, I ratify my commitment to democracy, the rule of law and the Constitution" .
"I strongly reject that my government is plotting a closure of Congress to avoid a vacancy," said the president.
Castillo called on Parliament and all institutions "to the broadest unity to work together for a country that needs us together to solve its great problems and for which we have been democratically elected for a period of 5 years."
This Saturday the Minister of Defense, Daniel Barragán, presented his irrevocable resignation to the president for personal reasons, however, the news was used by right-wing sectors to spread the rumor that Castillo would be planning an alleged coup in order to avoid his dismissal.
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It ain't looking good. Castillo is a good guy but was obviously unprepared for the savage opposition he faces. 'Popular' ain't enough, the capitalists murder popular leaders like swatting flies. Johnny Unitas has a word of advice for President Castillo, "The best defense is a good offence."
