Leopoldo Santos Ramírez*: It’s not war, stupid

The passivity of Latin American governments regarding the criminal conduct of the United States government in bombing ships in both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific has already reached scandalous levels. Now, with the attempted closure of Venezuelan airspace, Trump outlines a threat for the rest of Latin America that is difficult to ignore, even for a country like ours, committed, without reciprocity, to the preliminary review of the Free Trade Agreement. Few countries, with a markedly progressive, left-wing political tendency, have raised their voices to condemn Trump’s savage violation of international law, but they have done so individually, which has to change to a collective position; It does not matter if at first there are few who join, in the end the majority of nations willing to rebel against tyranny will come together, just as vast sectors of North American society have begun mobilization within their territory. Some elements of international events support the idea of ​​presenting a common front against Trumpist arbitrariness. Recently, with eloquent clarity, President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, showed in the UN Assembly much of the thoughts and feelings of millions of Latin Americans in the face of this new aggression of the empire that is increasingly closer to the Venezuelan coasts. Our President has also, with restraint, recalled time and again that she is asked this question, in or out of the morning, repeating the principles of our foreign policy. The recent statements by Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, when speaking of the Israeli genocide against Gaza, took a step forward in condemning the Netanyahu regime, and showed that Trump’s policies do not have support from many sectors at the international level, and do have great repudiation. Now it is necessary for the governments that are clearly for peace and not for bowing, together to make a uniform declaration regarding the withdrawal of ships and armed forces near the Venezuelan coast, and to denounce before the UN the violations of international law, which now seems an empty concept, but which needs to be exercised to revive it. Of course, all this is accompanied by mobilizations of the people in favor of peace.

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