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or a path that many We considered closed, the policy of force, intimidation and bravado is deployed throughout the continent and from there to the world of the great powers. The US military intervention, announced as the great secret announced by the head of the Executive and replicated by his prophets and publicists urbi et orbiwarns us of the triumphant arrival of a “new era” in which the method of negotiation will be shouting, intimidation and the most blatant use of force that we can remember.
No matter the pretexted issue or its legal or police support, any movement by a real or invented adversary justifies the outbursts of the businessman president and the subsequent military invasion, disguised or not.
The case of Venezuela, without any rhetoric, is an attack on its sovereignty, the “surgical operation” opens all possibilities for other nations to suffer the same fate, including us.
“We are a superpower,” said Stephen Miller, national security adviser to the US president. And he added so that there was no doubt: “we live in a world where you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world… that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he concluded (Macarena Vidal, “Trump’s advisor, Stephen Miller, justifies the US taking over Greenland: ‘we are a superpower'”, The Country01/06/26).
In these conditions, moderation, a cool head and a temperate spirit are imposed; A disservice is done to the country with ideological discourses. The present does not appear simple; on the contrary. The demand for international legality should not be confused – much less mixed – with demagogic stridency or worn-out rhetoric. Nor is it about simply reviving the old nationalism, but about taking up and reworking with absolute seriousness and rigor the idea that politics, not only foreign, is not based on occurrences that are later paid dearly.
The time has come for a reflection that includes an explicit willingness to join, and call for deliberative participation that produces trust. That is, it should be, Mexican unity in the face of adversity. Sponsoring a process like this is a central task of government and politics.
