How does fascism operate in Latin America? (1)

Published at: 27/09/2024 06:00 PM

The American empire is leading the fascist onslaught in Latin America and for this purpose it has a criminal organization that has only brought chaos to the region and then we will explain how it is structured.

In recent years, we have witnessed a worrying alliance between authoritarian political projects and what some experts call the new financial and technological aristocracy. This is explained in their joint work by researchers Paula Giménez and Matías Caciabue called “Neofascisms in the region: virtual territory as an environment for building power” and detail that it is a “redefinition of global power dynamics, which deepens a logic of symbolic and cognitive violence, even threatening the sovereignty of our democracies”.

The reality in countries such as Brazil, Chile, El Salvador and Argentina is a clear example of this trend. Neo-fascists are shaped in the region out of the desperation of large social fragments, offering themselves as the owners of a single truth or of libertarians, at the cost of violence and repression in the peoples of Latin America.

Researchers Giménez and Caciabue explain that “economic and political violence is intensifying, regional leaders driven by the slogans of freedom and social security exude hatred, aggression and mistreatment without sparing actions or words, empowering sectors of society that accompany these proposals to also do so in the streets”.

Neo-fascism in the region

Once again, after having overcome repression by dictatorships and liberal governments, a social regression appears that has brought more pain to the Peoples of South America. So we have Javier Milei 's Argentina, in which the media don't talk about the repression that the people are experiencing in the streets of Buenos Aires, but they do talk about lowering the age of accountability from the story of security in the region that so many governments have known and know how to build, taking into account the latest report issued by the University Católica Argentina (UCA) in which they detail that “poverty reached 54.9% of people in the first quarter of 2024, and among minors it reached 70% in the first trimester, and destitution reached 30.8%.

We also saw how Bolsonaro's Brazil was characterized by the privatization of national industries, combined with the presence of big businessmen, the evangelical church and the military leadership in the governing bodies, deepening economic inequality in the country and fostered by a climate of political violence. In the southern giant, there were attacks and murders of Workers' Party militants during the last election campaign, in a social context with a significant increase in the purchase and possession of weapons. Among its most important initiatives, the decrees that reduced restrictions on the purchase of weapons and ammunition stand out, in addition to the permission for Brazilian citizens to own a greater number of weapons.

Bolsonaro , a self-confessed fascist, established security policies in his image and likeness, which created conditions for his followers to attempt to storm the Planalto Palace on January 8, 2022, in order to delegitimize Luiz Inácio's electoral victory Lula da Silva.

In the same vein, and with the intention of strengthening his totalitarian regime, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador agreed on a plan to turn the country into a regional technological center under the axis of the modernization of the country with the company Alphabet, a subsidiary of Google; for transfer all public information in the country into the hands of this company.

The researchers Giménez and Caciabue agree in their research that “these liberal and neo-fascist leaders aligned with the United States and Israel, share their policies of security and militarization of civil society” and added that “the White House has been issuing instructions since Institutions such as the International Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Foundation for Democracy (NED), the Carter Center and international organizations such as the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN) and the Organization of States Americans (OAS); from there they finance operations, plan attacks, coordinate interventions, declare against and supply weapons to destabilize countries that are of interest to this empire.”

Along these lines, last Wednesday, September 25, we were able to observe the behavior of the leaders of Chile, El Salvador, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Uruguay and Panama attacked Venezuela at the 79th General Assembly of the UN Organization, making demands that, before the world, seek to question the seriousness of the powers that make up the State.

In addition, as part of the statements during the 79th session of the UN, Secretary of State Antony Blinken; the Secretary of the OAS, Luis Almagro; the Foreign Minister of Argentina and other partner countries met in New York to decide on the return of democracy in Venezuela; disrespecting the sovereign will of a people who expressed themselves and re-elected Nicolás Maduro as president.

The time has come for the world to finally understand that we are sovereign and independent, that the problems of Venezuelans are solved only by Venezuelans and that, above all, we are the ones who guarantee peace in the country.

AMELYREN BASABE/ Mazo News Team