The meeting, held in Los Angeles, California, is being held in the absence of a dozen heads of state, including Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Bolivian Luis Arce and Honduran Xiomara Castro, who decided not to attend due to differences of opinion the actions against these three countries.
According to Borón in an article published in the newspaper Pagina 12, the celebration of an event with these characteristics corresponds to Washington’s simplistic vision of Latin America and has as a background the numerous setbacks of the North American administration.
According to the renowned Argentine analyst, on the impact of a disastrous US foreign policy, there is an internal scenario characterized by the increase in violence, poverty and inflation, the decline in popular support for President Joe Biden and the risk of the return of Donald Trump, among others.
Biden faces tremendous difficulties five months before the midterm elections that could end his term, not legally but actually if Republicans win a majority in the House of Representatives and more seats in the Senate, Borón noted.
On the other hand, he warned about the boomerang effect of sanctions against Russia and China, support for the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, aggression against countries like Cuba and its attitude towards Latin America, which it tries to divide and manage.
Why would a President beset by such tremendous problems call such a meeting? Because of the simplistic interpretation US governments have of this part of the world they intend to control for much of the 20th century, he hinted.
They have no idea of the changes that have taken place in the region since the incursion of Hugo Chávez (1954-2013), who changed the perception of the United States and made us realize that its decline is irreversible and we are witnessing the dawn of one new geopolitical era. , he added.
Borón called the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from the summit irritating and assured that the meeting had no valid agenda, plans or projects.
Washington must end its vile practice of intervention and destabilization. He also needs to end his scandalous double-talk about human rights, he said.
The political scientist found it inconceivable that Washington would ignore international organizations and courts and maintain 76 military bases in Latin America installed to ensure access to strategic natural resources and to control peoples should they decide to march in one direction that is incompatible with their interests.
On the other hand, he called for the immediate end of the economic, trade and financial blockade imposed by the White House for more than six decades on the largest of the Antilles and criticized its intensification during the Covid 19 pandemic.
He assured that this fence was a crime against humanity, the longest in history, against an island that chose to take its fate.
The same applies to the blockades and constant aggression against Venezuela and Nicaragua. They cause suffering among the population, but they also undermine the moral foundations of the political order in the Reich, he said.
The article by the Argentine political scientist comes after the country’s foreign minister, Santiago Cafiero, in Los Angeles denounced Washington’s unilateral coercive measures against states in the region.
The Secretary of State also condemned the involvement of the Organization of American States in the coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia and its interference.
The blockades go in the opposite direction to the search for tools to fight inequality. The commitment to democratic governance proposed here cannot be achieved if unilateral sanctions and measures persist despite evidence showing their failure, he stressed.
In recent statements, Cafiero and President Alberto Fernández assured that Argentina would attend the event on behalf of the Latin American and Caribbean community and raise the voice of those excluded.
Numerous international organizations questioned Washington’s position and accused the North American government of holding a doomed summit without America.
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