Opinion: the São Paulo Forum wants a deep red color for Ibero-America

By Nitu Pérez Osuna*

(Opinion) The Uruguayan writer and journalist, ex-tupamaro and, therefore —man of the left— Carlos Liscano, in his most recent book “Cuba, it’s better not to talk about that”, points out that:

“Cuba is a very poor country, not because of the blocking but because it produces nothing. In Cuba, there are no liberties of any kind. It is the dictatorship of the Communist Party.”

“More specifically, it is the dictatorship of Fidel Castro’s family and of a small group of generals and bureaucrats who accepted and applauded the boss’s messianic delusions for six decades.”

But not only in Cuba a family and their friends take power.

In Nicaragua, history repeats itself with Ortega-Murillo and in Venezuela with Maduro-Flores, nephews, children, and, if it continues like this…even grandchildren.

While these dictatorships are getting tougher, world leaders either do not talk about them or, what is worse, they negotiate with them.

Meanwhile, this weekend in Caracas, the Expanded Working Group of the São Paulo Forum meeting —transnational terror, crime, and authoritarianism— was held.

There is the alliance of sectors that —within the Forum call themselves “democratic”—with the worst dictatorships in the region, such as those of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

The two-day meeting, according to a press release from the Nicolás Maduro regime, “seeks to generate a set of concrete actions, to continue deepening the rights and demands of the peoples of the world and to confront US imperialism.”

How ironic!

“To deepen the rights and claims of the peoples of the world…” when the regime of the host country has been accused and is being investigated by the International Criminal Court of having committed crimes against humanity, torture, extrajudicial executions, and forced disappearances.

Not counting the migration of more than 7 million citizens, the largest known in the region’s history.

Well, this Friday, the 18th, and to welcome the group, Maduro posted on his Twitter account:

“The São Paulo Forum represents the hope and the largest fighting trench of the forces, movements, groups, and political parties of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world. From now on, we are preparing to design a work strategy for our next meeting.”

In addition, from the Miraflores Palace, he expressed that “the São Paulo Forum has made it possible to bring together unity in diversity, in permanent debate, unity for action…since the 1990s, when facing general pessimism and onslaught of neoliberalism as the only ideology that sought to impose itself, the single thought.”

According to La Gazeta do Povo, at the meeting (in which more than 60 guests participated) were representatives of left-wing movements and parties from Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Palestine, the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Uruguay.

Adán Chávez, Hugo Chávez’s brother, told the participants that the São Paulo Forum has shown that to move forward, unity is necessary to carry out a strategic plan to “concretize sovereignty in our America.”

He assured that “there are political advances that are somehow the product of the SãoPaulo Forum, and the enemy knows it; that’s why we receive so many attacks.”

The second man of the PSUV —Venezuela’s official party— Diosdado Cabello immediately chorused:

“We must remain united in any circumstance, be a solid block. They call us all over the place because they think they will blackmail us. This is the house of the São Paulo Forum.”

What cannot be denied is what was stated by the executive secretary of the São Paulo Forum, Mónica Valente:

“Today, when we look at the map of Latin America and the Caribbean, we see a map that is almost all red, and that is the result of that struggle, of resistance in numerous spaces that seal the political movements and in the progressive and revolutionary governments.”

I once read to the internationalist Mariano Caucino that communism never rests and tries to achieve its usual goal: to consolidate dictatorships on our continent.

With this meeting in Caracas, the alliance of those who intend to drown the region in hunger, misery, pain, persecution, and death is confirmed.

They can no longer hide behind the slogan that there is a “vegetarian” and a “carnivore” left; they all support each other.

* Venezuelan. A journalist by profession, communicator by trade, and activist for the best causes by vocation. She was a columnist and radio and television host in her country of origin. Currently, she has established herself as a powerful ‘YouTuber’ in “El canal de Nitu” and “Plomovisión 24: horas de opinión”. She is an international organizational communication consultant.

She is a freedom fighter and a relentless researcher searching for the truth.

With information from Gaceta