Camouflage? This is how fascism operated in Latin America starting in 2000

Published at: 18/10/2024 06:00 PM

Fascism has not left Latin America and the Peoples must be vigilant and defeat it. To demonstrate their performance in the region over the past 24 years, we will review what happened in our countries.

Just a few years ago, we saw the assaults on the democracies of Honduras, during the term of Zelaya in 2009 and of Paraguay in the Lugo government in 2012, which were planned at the respective American embassy with the objective of governing those countries according to their interests.

Under the excuse of the war against drug trafficking, the International Crisis Group in 2014 conducted research for the North American magazine Foreign Policy, in which it detailed that “our main concern lies in the impact of organized crime and what we can call institutional insufficiency in several Latin American countries.”

Then, in order to justify interference in Latin American countries, the International Crisis Group explained in the investigation that “the northern triangle of Central America, made up of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, where large drug trafficking cartels have found in this The area is a haven of impunity in the face of weak institutions. In El Salvador, for example, the expansion and power of these groups was such that the government had to accept a truce between the mafias that devastated the capital.” It is important to be clear that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which is the agency of the United States Department of Justice dedicated to the fight against drug smuggling and consumption in the United States, has not ceased to have a presence in the areas and is supposedly responsible for preventing this type of activities.

On the other hand, former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has said on several occasions that “we are facing a new Operation Condor , as was the name of the transnational conspiracy carried out by South American dictatorships in the seventies and eighties, which assassinated leaders of the democratic left in a dozen countries and exercised State terrorism on a continental level”.

Also, Correa stressed, in an interview with Euronews in 2015, that “without being able to see it from the unprepared eye of a citizen tied to the rigors of everyday life, we have been subjected to a convoluted experiment of recolonization that has two execution times: 1) to fail the emancipatory projects undertaken in each of the Latin American countries, and 2) to impose authoritarianism as main pillar of the neoliberal restoration”.

Under the same scheme but with a new strategy, in Brazil during 2016, they used “impeachment” to overthrow President Dilma Rousseff with a parliamentary coup organized from the American embassy, thus cutting off a constitutional mandate obtained in the 2014 election, with more than 54 million votes. In this way, the rupture of thirteen years of government led by the Workers' Party (PT) was consummated. Its leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, would at the same time be subject to judicial persecution and conviction without evidence, with the aim of later arresting him and inhibiting his presidential candidacy in 2018.

Of course and as is customary, an important sector of the Brazilian elite, together with the media monopoly, supported the offensive of judges and prosecutors with North American advice to liquidate the progressive process; this was followed by a program of adjustment in social investment, privatization and regression of acquired rights.

Even in an investigation that was published on the La Tinta portal called “Alert, alert that fascism is walking through Latin America”, carried out by Javier Tolcachier in 2018, it was explained that “based on the coup, the betrayal of its electoral alliance and a severely anti-popular program, the government of Michel Temer openly involved in the region's most famous corruption case, such as Lava Jato, in which they even found audio of the then president negotiating millions of dollars with businessmen, as well as the purchase of silence from the former president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha”.

Tolcachier also explained in his research that “ this frontal onslaught of economic power was joined by forces of neofascism, which was disguised as a struggle for the human rights of the majority. Thus, discrimination against blacks and women, the attack on sexual diversity, revanchism and hatred, repression, order without social progress, was the flag raised by the former army captain and federal deputy for seven consecutive terms, Jair Bolsonaro. An exponent of misogyny and racism like Bolsonaro tried to emulate Donald Trump's path and appealed to retrograde practices to join the extreme right movement that today is making strong progress in the world.”

Also in 2018, economist and historian Yldefonso Finol, an expert in Human Rights and International Refugee Law, explained in his book called “Fascism Returns to Latin America”, that “ fascism has never gone away, the direction of this continental operation is led by US imperialism through their traditional instruments of control, such as the Departments of State and Defense, Intelligence and Counterintelligence Agencies, the Secretariat of the Treasury, the system of diplomatic interference and information manipulation, with the presence of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and the participation of the privileged political class, subordinate to the interests of dominant capital; who justify it with the supposed fight against corruption, drug trafficking, and to the defense of the separation of powers and human rights; any hoax is good if it allows the reinstatement of imperialist hegemony”.

This is how history shows that the imperial power will always make any attempt to destabilize Latin American peoples who do not adapt to American designs. When the Peoples decide to be free, the United States does everything impossible and unthinkable to recover what they assume to be their “backyard”.

AMELYREN BASABE/Mazo News Team