Deepening changes or conservative restoration: a dilemma for Latin America
The timing is extraordinary, which combines the deployment process transformation with social partitions painful clarity. In Latin America, most of the countries under discussion between the deepening of democratic processes and social and political conservative replacement of hierarchical principles, estates and class in the modes of government. The processes are ambiguous and heterogeneous but two features are clear: no rules against it or against popular social movements and the region has increased levels-yet-insufficient integration. UNASUR, regional political institution, is the most significant testimony of that conjunction. The destinies of our countries are bound not only by cultural tradition or common colonial past, are tied because the global crisis forces them to emphasize the economic and productive integration and because each of the relevant processes taking place in the region requires the confluence of the rest. Latin America is not only the name of our desires, is the reality of our challenges.
Argentina, which have coexisted popular tradition and ruling classes atinoamericanista reluctant to think in relation to the regional membership today through decisions, discussions and political and economic conflicts with its status as a core American. Since the objection inadmissible by sectors of the industrial bourgeoisie to the integration of Venezuela to Mercosur, the treatment of migrants from neighboring countries, you configure a range of problems in which every decision is relevant: announces social alliances, solve integration modes defines
political horizons. One form of the conservative restoration is, without doubt, the decline in betting unprecedented confluence between the countries of the region centered on respect for their sovereign decisions. Argentina during the elections, this is part of the debate, because the government has been strengthening policies of regional logics from attempts to increase political and economic domination of the United States. The defeat of the FTAA project and the proposed reaction of the South Bank are markers for a journey of self development.
Everything may seem insufficient, or even be at the level of compensation and equity, but only the deepening of this process and not its conclusion or weakening these shortcomings will be trapped inside. Today it is concerned about the asymmetry between the importance of ongoing transformations and the weakness of heterogeneous political forces that support them. Concern can be expressed as warning against the potential continuity and deepening of the process.
The deepening of the changes at issue in the election time. But not only. It also invalidates the creation of political organizations of militant activism, democratic spaces, capable of competing for the egalitarian and emancipatory in the battles voting in legislative bodies, state institutions, in neighborhoods, in the spaces work in the media, in
cultural fields.
In this organization is commoner power play, too, the fate of the region.
Open Letter with his words and assemblies, with its concern for naming and willful commitment, their willingness to link areas that seemed doomed to antagonism or ignorance, to enlistment in the conflict and its temporary reflexive Open Letter, with your baggage, you want to be part of that process.
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