We are facing a political upheaval on a continental scale.
What can be expected from the presidential elections in Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina?
It is risky to make electoral predictions, but what is a fact, is that in the three elections of this October the progressive forces are fighting the political power with the right, in an unprecedented struggle.
And it is not possible to circumvent the resistance of Ecuadorians, those of the people of Honduras, where the left is clearly majority, as well as the exemplary struggles of indigenous people and peasants in Colombia, who demand at the same time the fulfillment of the Peace Agreements of Havana and the fundamental claim of land, financing, new conditions for marketing their products, democracy, respect, peace ...
What impact does the transformation process that is taking place in Mexico have, knowing how we know that the Presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the result of decades of intense popular mobilizations and the collapse of the oligarchic political class?
How does the emergence of socialist currents within the Democratic Party of the United States, a new leftist leadership that does not stay in partial claims and that goes for more, register in this picture?
And it is also necessary to affirm that the democratic response of the Cuban people to the situation they face, through a constitutive process of broad participation, is not only successful, but is an exact indication of the new sign of the times.
Events that shake political reality are expressed in this land of Simón Bolívar and Hugo Chávez, above the fake new, and of all the maneuvers the truth makes its way. Chavismo and the constitutionalist opposition find the route to re-institutionalize the National Assembly, the coup plan - directed from Washington - was left without a social floor, when the phantasmagoric interim presidency of the “self-proclaimed” failed, and this has a two-way effect On the one hand, the coup plotters are isolated and defeated, and on the other, the aggression of the United States Government deepens.
The truth is that popular mobilization, civic-military unity, the growing international solidarity, and the successful political leadership of President Maduro and the collective leadership of the Bolivarian Revolution, has made it possible for us not only to resist, but to advance in this struggle. unequal and heroic against imperialism.
We are facing a political turn in Latin America, today, more than ever, the slogan that Chavez left us in his farewell: “Unity, struggle, battle and victory” is valid.