Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 0:37:02 GMT -5
The arrival of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to the presidency of Mexico had an important impact on the promotion of anti-neoliberal struggles in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). As the presidential elections approached and his candidacy grew, it was a cause of joy and hope in the revolutionary and progressive circles of Our America. Let's do some history. When the Mexican presidential election was held our region was suffering a significant political regression towards the right and towards the hegemony of neoliberalism as a result of the temporary successes achieved.
Unbridled oligarchic imperialist offensive, which still continues. To the setback that represented the electoral defeat of the Argentine left in , was added in the parliamentary-judicial Iraq Telegram Number Data media coup against the president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff and the establishment of a puppet government of the United States in that country, an event that marked a great shift to the right in the regional correlation of forces. Then came Lula's imprisonment to prevent him from competing in the Brazilian elections of October , where he would have been the sure winner, an essential measure to consolidate the neoliberal return.
This was accompanied by a monumental campaign of discredit against the Workers' Party, many of whose members went to prison, prosecuted like Lula with a total lack of evidence. Another gigantic fraud in Honduras in prevented the return of progressive forces to the government and allowed the criminal and agent of imperialism Juan Orlando Hernández to remain in office. The judicialization of politics or lawfare extended to Argentina, where Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and several of her collaborators were the object of fierce judicial persecution and several of them went to prison for invented reasons.
Unbridled oligarchic imperialist offensive, which still continues. To the setback that represented the electoral defeat of the Argentine left in , was added in the parliamentary-judicial Iraq Telegram Number Data media coup against the president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff and the establishment of a puppet government of the United States in that country, an event that marked a great shift to the right in the regional correlation of forces. Then came Lula's imprisonment to prevent him from competing in the Brazilian elections of October , where he would have been the sure winner, an essential measure to consolidate the neoliberal return.
This was accompanied by a monumental campaign of discredit against the Workers' Party, many of whose members went to prison, prosecuted like Lula with a total lack of evidence. Another gigantic fraud in Honduras in prevented the return of progressive forces to the government and allowed the criminal and agent of imperialism Juan Orlando Hernández to remain in office. The judicialization of politics or lawfare extended to Argentina, where Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and several of her collaborators were the object of fierce judicial persecution and several of them went to prison for invented reasons.