In the Latin American context, each of the attacks of the oligarchic right wing against popular and leftist governments elected by the vote of the people to lead the destinies of several countries, must have left a sobering lesson.
There are not few projects of social benefit that have been mutilated, either by media or parliamentary coups, or by a combination of these, in which the so-called "justice" has built, based on lies, formulas to defeat them.
A true popular leader, such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, was the victim of judicial arrangements to take him to prison for 19 months, for no proven reason, with the aim of removing him from Brazilian political life.
Another one, like Ecuador's Rafael Correa, had to leave for exile before being arrested and prosecuted in his country, where he had led a giant social work, today unfinished and subjected to neoliberal cuts, after the debacle caused by the betrayal of someone who deceived not a few with his undeserved name and the supposed continuity once he came to power.
Jorge Glas, Ecuadorian vice-president during the second term of Rafael Correa, has suffered the onslaught of the judicial compromise against the left wing and progressivism and has had to spend the last years between jail and sporadic liberties, amid the ups and downs of a "justice" applied according to the convenience of the government of the day.
In Bolivia, with the fundamental authorship of the Organization of American States (OAS), the left wing, headed by Evo Morales, was deprived of a convincing electoral victory, through the fabrication of fallacies that led to a coup d'état and the imposition of a de facto government, illegal and corrupt to boot.
There emerged Jeanine Añez, who, in addition to being responsible for the repression to which the Bolivian population was subjected, the death and injury of dozens of civilians, led the country to an economic and social disaster that only the U.S. Government and the OAS applauded.
In this 2022 that is already coming to an end, the Latin American region has progressive leaders, some already in power and another one that will take office this January 1st, all committed to carry out great processes of social benefit, under the permanent threat of the right-wing sectors, supported by money, media power and some representatives of the judiciary.
It would be naive to think that Lula, who will be sworn in as president of Brazil on January 1st, will be allowed to govern without the obstacles of a Congress with adverse forces and other representatives of the political network that contributed millions of votes in favor of the outgoing Jair Bolsonaro, author of an unusual list of shameful deeds against his people.
In the case of Argentina, led by Alberto Fernandez in the aftermath of the Macri administration, the ties to the IMF loans and the manipulations of large media holdings and some representatives of "justice," are already uniting the most right wing sectors and have gone all out against the Vice-President of that nation.
They first tried to take Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's life through an assassination attempt, and once that objective was frustrated, the most right wing sectors, with the sponsorship of a media monopoly and the action of judges who answer to that oligarchy, fabricated a plan through lies, to imprison her, sentence her to six years in jail and deprive her for life of her right to hold public office in the country.
Almost simultaneously with this macabre plan staged in Argentina, in another South American nation, Peru, Pedro Castillo, a leftist teacher and union leader, who became president of the Republic by popular vote, was stripped of his office, through the ruling of three judges who accused him of acts of corruption, without any evidence to that effect.
There are already several dozens of dead and wounded among the demonstrators demanding the release of Castillo and the call for new elections for the presidency, who have been repressed by the police.
This short summary only intends to warn the popular and leftist movements and their leaders that they cannot remain on the defensive in the face of the thrust of an oligarchic right wing, which has set out to seize power where it has been won by the popular vote.
We must leave behind any belief that the OAS can represent our peoples and that its Secretary General, Luis Almagro, can be a credible interlocutor in the search for consensus on the stability and development of Latin American countries.
It cannot be ignored that the regional and international right wing has many resources to buy off corrupt judges as well as wobbly politicians.
The examples contained in this article are just samples of the vital need for a united, courageous and decisive action for the benefit of peoples who have known the ravages of a corrupt right wing and a neoliberal system without any solution to the problems of this world.
LATIN AMERICA IN 2022
The 32.1 % of the population lives in poverty.
Unemployment rose to 11.6%.
The proportion of women graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics does not exceed 40%.
It is estimated that in 2023 the slowdown in economic growth will deepen and reach a rate of 1.3%.
Translated by ESTI
