Swing point in the Patria Grande. The heroic rebellion of the Chilean people against the model that the market fundamentalists proclaimed as the panacea of the world, has irreversibly plunged neoliberalism into the deepest of discredit. It is further reaffirmed by the courage with which young people, women, the elderly, the whole town, face the Pinochet repression of Sebastián Piñera. The multitudes of unarmed participants in the peaceful marches are moving resolutely towards lines of police who shoot at tear gas, rubber bullets and pellets that have already caused 3712 detainees, including 404 minors, 1,323 injured and loss of vision or eye injuries to more than 100 people, women and men sexually assaulted and tortured, sometimes in the street. The minions shoot in the face in search of maximum terror. There are 20 deceased but the specific causes are not clear to me. The battle of Chile is a fundamental part of the one with the greatest reach that is settled in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the world, for political hegemony. On the one hand, the neoliberal model; on the other, one called to dismantle it, as we have seen in Venezuela, Bolivia, in the first Kirchner government, in Lula and Dilma, in Uruguay and Nicaragua. In Honduras with Zelaya and in Paraguay with Lugo until the overthrow of both. It is about achieving the regression of neoliberalism as much as possible, according to the correlation of forces in each country, considering that although it is dying, it is the pattern of accumulation for now hegemonic, at least on the scale of Western capitalism.
Chile and the battle between two models
A very important event for the progressive political course of the region was the resounding electoral victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador with an antineoliberal agenda of independence, sovereignty and national dignity. The fact called into question the unsustainable fable of the end of the progressive cycle. Much more when produced in Mexico, one of the most extensive, populated, economically important and influential countries of Our America. But it is increasingly clear that in the states where progressive governments were overthrown or defeated electorally, or in those where the right has governed for years, in the case of Colombia and Peru, neoliberalism is not doing well and is strongly rejected by growing popular struggles, as in Argentina, Brazil and Honduras. In those we were and in October of this year the formidable indigenous and popular uprising in Ecuador against the international Monetary Fund (IMF) package exploded; Although he has not achieved his goals for now, he demonstrated the offensive capacity of the Ecuadorian popular forces, which now face a new round of talks with the government of traitor Moreno.
The resounding electoral victory of Evo Morales in the elections of October 20 also confirms the viability of an antineoliberal Latin America, despite the drowning kicks of Mesa and his separatist partners in Santa Cruz. The transparency with which the Bolivian government has opened the election to international observation and the gigantic signs of popular support in its favor will put an end to the oligarchic-imperialist attempt to steal the elections at the expense of the indigenous vote.
Meanwhile, in Argentina, another country of the greatest regional importance for reasons similar to Mexico, the result of the elections of October 20, with the victory of the Fernández-Fernández duo shows a frontal rejection of Macri's 3.0 neoliberalism and the desire to resume the path of human dignity, national independence, reindustrialization, employment and the right to education and health. Immediately, a salary agreement is foreseen to reactivate the internal market, which together with a new taxation will allow progress in the social agenda. It will not be easy for Alberto and Cristina in a country ransacked and indebted to the marrow by the large capital partners of Macri. That same day Daniel Martínez, candidate of the Frente Amplio won the first round of the Uruguayan election. It will be uphill, but not impossible, to win the ballot against the united right. The electoral defeat of the warrior and corrupt Uribismo in the mayor's offices of Bogotá and Medellín, a step in favor of peace, must not be omitted.
In this context, the heroic resistance and battle for its development in Cuba and Venezuela, in very difficult conditions of growing and cruel economic warfare and fourth generation by the United States, constitutes an exceptional contribution to tip the balance on the side of the peoples and one of the most important moral stimuli at this time for the Latin American Caribbean revolutionary and progressive movement. This, at the same time, has the sacred duty of multiplying its solidarity efforts with the Cuban and Bolivarian Revolutions, a mission that it must place as a top priority of its agenda
No comments:
Post a Comment