Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) denounced the United States’ global interventions in conflicts on all continents, promoting coups and hybrid wars against democratic and popular governments, especially in Latin America.
According to the former president, the end of the Soviet Union and the victory of the United States in the Cold War created a unipolar world.
“An armed unipolarity was underway, led by a country guided by a reactionary ideology of indispensable nationality and manifest destiny, ready to defend the new order with all its might. In reality, the world has never been more dangerous than since then,” she stressed.
In her message on the occasion of the International Day of Peace, which is celebrated this Wednesday, she recalled that between 1945 and 1991 the United States participated in 17 military operations around the world, while between 1991 and 2020 it participated in 50 military operations outside its territory.
She said that Latin America has suffered from coups d’état under unipolar domination and argued that the United States led military dictatorships in the 20th century, while in the 21st century, it has been the leader of a military dictatorship.
“All these initiatives that impose neoliberal policies increase inequality and the impoverishment of the population and threaten the sovereignty of our countries,” she said.
With the misconceptions of the “end of the state” and the emergence of new programs under a clearly militaristic agenda of “humanitarian wars,” “defense of democracy” and “human rights,” and then under the umbrella of the “war on terror,” crimes against humanity were being committed around the world.
She pointed out that hybrid wars in Latin America topple governments, as was the case with Manuel Zelaya in Honduras in 2009, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay in 2012, and Evo Morales in Bolivia in 2019.
The coronavirus epidemic, she said, shows the immense difficulties of a capitalist world that despise the state’s role in providing health policies and cannot take effective measures to protect human life.
Rousseff also condemned the perverse effects of the sanctions imposed by Washington on Cuba and Venezuela, which she described as weapons more deadly than war because they hit civilians.
“In Latin America, we are familiar with this type of weapons: Cuba has been suffering from them for more than 60 years, and Venezuela has also suffered the consequences of these sanctions in recent years,” she said. The persistence of the governments of Cuba and Venezuela proves the perversity and ineffectiveness of this weapon,” she concluded.