Socialism seeks to be reborn and bring Latin America to its knees again

That Mexico and Uruguay have put themselves on the side of barbarism in the most vague hours of Venezuela is not a coincidence at all if one takes into account the ideological profile of their rulers. A decade has passed since the absolute height of the Sao Paulo Forum , that congregation of left-wing parties converted into government in Latin America, largely financed by the petrodollars of Venezuela under the command of Hugo Chávez, whose waste to finance a political project Internationally, Venezuelans pay today.

The founders of this forum were Lula da Silva and the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in 1990. The latter was one of the most responsible for promoting socialist cancer in Latin America.

According to the foundational foundations of the forum, it was constituted to gather efforts of the parties and leftist movements, to "debate on the international scene after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the consequences of neoliberalism in Latin America and the Caribbean."

Castro, who pushed his population to poverty, was the fundamental axis of the attack against the freedom of the continent. For decades, his totalitarian government financed and advised armed guerrilla revolutions in the main democracies of the region, as is the case in Colombia, Venezuela and Nicaragua. He even participated in armed invasions in African and Asian countries such as Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Angola and Ethiopia. In addition, he tried to destabilize Panama and the Dominican Republic.

After years of failed attempts at armed interventions, Castro found his perfect ally in Chavez to finance and expand socialist cancer in Latin America, as detailed in Orlando Avendaño's book, Days of Submission . The arrival of Chávez to power represented the rise of the first left-wing Government in decades to the continent, whose economic portfolio served to strengthen the ideological boom in the region and fulfill the dream of the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba (to unify Latin America under the yoke of socialism). As a result of this, in the following years the Sao Paulo Forum was filled not only with parties, but with states with partisan representations.

In 2002, Lula da Silva (one of the founders of the forum) of the Workers Party would be elected in Brazil; in 2004 he would win the presidency in Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez, of the Frente Amplio; Bolivia would continue in 2005 with the election of Evo Morales for the Movement to Socialism in Bolivia; Michelle Bachelet in 2006, of the Socialist Party of Chile; That same year Rafael Correa (Country Alliance) in Ecuador and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua (for the second time) (Sandinista National Liberation Front) would come to power. In the following years the government parties with representation in the Sao Paulo Forum would continue to grow with the election of Fernando Lugo in Paraguay by the Patriotic Alliance for Change; Mauricio Funes, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, in El Salvador in 2009.

In short, it was Castro who sowed in Chavez the seed that would forever change the political dynamics of the continent, redirecting past and failure to several countries in the region. In addition, they were complicit in international organizations of aberrations, economic failures and repressions against citizens of countries that have already transmuted into tyrannies, as is the case in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

That the apogee of the forum has taken place with the arrival of Chávez to power and that the decline of the forum also occurs just after his death is not a coincidence at all. The commander knew and was able to unite the socialist flag in the region due to the excess of liquidity granted by the largest oil reserves on planet earth. With a barrel of oil at more than $ 100 for almost the majority of its mandate, there were no limits for the financing of populist measures inside and outside Venezuela, in addition to the purchase of consciences in countries of America and the Caribbean, which they always knew return favors in silence when international organizations discussed human rights violations by leftist regimes.

Nicolas Maduro: De-facto leader of Venezuela

After the early death of Chavez, the result of cancer, his legacy was left to Maduro, who many want to blame completely the blame for the revolutionary failure in Venezuela, to try to alleviate the commander's blame, but especially socialism. The truth is that when Maduro received the power, a break had already been executed that allowed to annul the principle of the separation of powers. The statism had already done its own taking over private property to squeeze it and then break it, the oil company had already been destroyed and looted, and all the money raised in these looting operations was distributed in bags of food for the population and in the financing of the ideological extension of socialism in the continent, that the only thing he left in Venezuela was hunger, tears, death, and misery.

To put in numbers the failure of socialism in Venezuela, it is enough to say that after Chávez came to power in 1998, PDVSA produced 88 barrels per day per employee. Currently, it produces less than 6 per worker, according to data offered by economist José Toro Hardy. With a much smaller payroll, at that time PDVSA produced 3,279,000 barrels per day, much higher than the approximate 700,000 today, of which some 100,000 are given to Cuba. Thus, the result of the decline in PDVSA means that currently the annual production is around 255,500,000 barrels, unlike the 1 196,835,000 barrels per year 20 years ago, a production loss of more than 80 % and billions of dollars.

The destruction of Venezuela's financial engine has been reproduced in the remaining productive sectors of the country: builder, automotive, food producer, farmer, textile, business, tourism, financial. And so on in all the fields in which the state hand has intervened completely breaking the economy, producing historical hyperinflation and leading Venezuela to become the largest migration catastrophe in the history of Latin America.

Two dictatorships that began last century may also be useful for us to show the differences between a socialist and a capitalist government. When Castro came to power, in 1959, Cuba had social and economic conditions similar to those of Chile. In 1958 the gross domestic product (GDP) of Cuba was 2 360 million dollars for a population of 6 631 000 inhabitants and that of Chile was 2 580 million for a population of 7 165 000 inhabitants and a PPC of 360. In Chile's GDP currently stands at 507,939 million dollars, compared to 96,851 million dollars in Cuba in 2017, which were its latest official data.

While it is true that the terror to be seen in the mirror of Venezuela has stirred consciences in the continent and has allowed the return of governments with ideological lines of support for the free market and the strengthening of economies, another of the most important nations, Mexico , succumbed to the communism that recently emerged with Andrés Manuel López Obrador in command, in another oil country with a large monetary portfolio capable of financing the rise of the movement. And Cristina Kirchner's return to power in Argentina is almost imminent, which predicts a continent that could return to red very soon, a situation that would help perpetuate Maduro in power.

Currently, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador have left-wing governments (although the last two nations have withdrawn their support for the Maduro dictatorship). But the danger of a new expansionist wave of misery is latent. This taking into account the stalking of Senator Gustavo Petro in Colombia (one of Chávez's faithful followers); the return to the arms of the FARC and the exponential growth of the ELN, protected by the dictatorship of Maduro; the return of Kirchnerism to Argentina and the unfortunate Venezuelan scenario that not only has Maduro in power, but also has the tragedy of a majority of openly socialist opposition parties, as is the so-called interim president of the country, Juan Guaidó, and his Popular Will party, that together with A New Time and Democratic Action are the members of the G4 that today control the National Assembly and are part of the ranks of the Socialist International. The fourth member of the G4, First Justice, which is the only party that is considered center, but whose bosses, as is the case of former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, have declared themselves admirers of Lula da Silva's socialism.

The key countries that can define the geopolitical destinations of the region are Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Colombia in the first level, and Cuba could be included for its ideological and strategic impact. Brazil seems to be safe today, Chile is the only country in the region that has managed to establish strong enough institutions that, despite socialist governments, have not been able to boost the free economy system implemented thanks to the authoritarian, but efficient government of Augusto Pinochet decades ago. However, the fall of Argentina is imminent, which could lead to new alliances with Mexico to block any exit from the dictatorship in Venezuela and play to destabilize Colombia with the advice of the Cubans, finance left-wing parties in the rest of the region,

Despite international pressures, today Maduro smiles, as he has managed to hold himself in power, repressing his country with an “ opposition ” leadership challenged on more than one occasion, with an ideological line of the left and accused by the Venezuelan population collaborate with the Maduro regime .

Time, for the dictator of Venezuela, is his greatest ally. Every day that passes is pure gold for him and misery, humiliation, exodus and death for Venezuelans. The regime continues to expel Venezuelans who oppose their government, which facilitates their control of the country. It has also been denounced that, following Cuban tactics, it has led to the exodus of criminals to the countries of the region with the purpose of destabilizing them .

In short, socialism goes to the reconquest of Latin America, with López Obrador, Maduro and Díaz-Canel as spearhead, and if no one stops them, the crisis in Latin America will be of gigantic proportions. The United States will have completely lost control of the region and not all the walls that Donald Trump wants or can build can stop a migratory stampede from Central America to a country that is smiling more and more at the socialism established within the Democratic Party.