The corrupting power of money is in full force and the 8th Summit of the Americas, initiated this Thursday, April 12, in Lima, Peru, where collateral activities have been taking place for several days, is convincing.
How much money have the United States, the Peruvian oligarchy, some NGOs and, in general, the reaction of the continent to finance the organizational arrangements of the event, in order to close the access to the stands to people and progressive movements of Our America?, and to be opened to the spokesmen and heralds of the most recalcitrant reaction in the region?
Why were Cuban youths from the Island excluded from the dialogue between social actors and high-level government delegates and instead accepted the presence in the forum of three dissident elements financed from the north and that don’t represent the civil society in Cuba?
Another reprehensible element was the appearance of certain fences in public places of the capital of Lima with expressions that were harmful to the dignity of Cuba, in discriminatory action against the most stable country in the Americas, which has just completed a successful election process that included the support of the immense majority of the people.
But what else can we expect from a Summit marked by instability at the regional and local level, where in the host country a large corruption scandal decreed days ago the resignation of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a Washington pawn, and left in precarious the Government despite the assumption of Martín Vizcarra, an engineer who was head of the electoral campaign of Kuczynski and later vice-president and minister of transport?
If at the previous summit in Panama, with a much more favorable correlation of forces for the progressive nations and sectors of the region, the internal and external reaction - read US - orchestrated sounded organizational scandals and provocations against Cuba, Venezuela and other countries, What cannot happen in Peru, surrounded by Colombia, Brazil and Chile, among other states governed by the recalcitrant right?
Did not the so-called Grupo de Lima emerge, headed against Venezuela and whose apparent reason for being is to propitiate the context for a "humanitarian" intervention in Simón Bolívar’s homeland? Remember the controversy surrounding Kuczynski’s denial of inviting President Nicolás Maduro to be present at that Summit, apparently, among other things, so that he would not be there with the overweening head of the Donald Trump empire, lavish in offenses, outbursts and nonsense.
The curious thing is that Maduro knew exactly what had to be done and only at the last minute announced that he would not go to the Summit; Kuczynski thought he was a host and went to bowling, and Trump, complicated by his own exertions and actions in Syria, does not seem to go anywhere either. These absences and those of other heads of state who will not be present detract an already rather opaque date.
But here is an avid element of prominence that, apparently, could not miss. This is the Uruguayan Luís Almagro, the non-presentable secretary general of the OAS, who went to Lima to attend the Summit and had the audacity to appear in the room where the V Youth Forum of the Americas was held.
As soon as this character entered the place, the shouts and exclamations of many of those present broke out because, while the aforementioned spoke with some assistants, many people remained outside who had not been allowed in and who had paid their expenses to be there. For that reason, the renegade ex-member of the Uruguayan Broad Front and ex-Foreign Minister of that country was reprimanded and they even shouted - according to Prensa Latina - that they would not invade that space, "that's what he had the Summit for ...”
The political leaders and oligarchs have put money in their hands, they have bought consciences and they have exerted pressures of all kinds, but they cannot hide and avoid the critics with all forcefulness of such reprehensible facts as the electoral fraud in Honduras, the confinement of Lula in Brazil, the criminal measures of suffocation and destabilization against Venezuela, the violation of peace agreements in Colombia, and a long etcetera.
This is a battle for reason, truth and justice in the continent, so that the excluded always have a voice, so that the people can live in peace and their rights are respected, so that the benefits of well-being and great riches that gave them nature, be the heritage of all and not the privilege of a few. These are the dreams of Simón Bolívar, José Martí and Fidel Castro, for which it is worth fighting.
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