They reproach right-wing parties for leaving AL conservatives “desamparo”

Arturo Cano

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday November 19, 2022, p. 4

Eduardo Verástegui made a dramatic pause in his speech delivered in Spanish and English, and released: I call those wolves in sheep’s clothing. The stage screens glowed brighter. The two rows of nuns and the rest of the attendees clapped their hands, although the former soap opera heartthrob was not referring to evil governments. socialists of Latin America, but to the partisan right.

For too long, the region’s conservatives have been helplesshe stated, as if Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro had been just a bad dream.

A few minutes later, the owners of the franchise took the stage: the couple formed by Matt and Mercedes Schlapp (officially presented as mercy). My gringo husbandshe said, in her Miami Cuban accent. The couple, head of the Conservative Action Political Conference (CPAC), took charge of communication affairs in the government and in the last campaign of Donald Trump.

Let me tell you, Eduardo, it’s like a presidential speech.expressed mercyexcited, and drew applause and shouts of president, president!addressed to Verástegui.

At the end of the day, Eduardo Bolsonaro, deputy and son of the still president of Brazil, spoke about the beginnings of his father’s fight that, he assured, began when we broke the monopoly that the left had on the streets.

From there, he joined the disclosure of the former singer Verástegui: Imagine having a president who, on top of being smart, is handsome, like him..

The CPAC brings together characters from the Latin American ultra-right and from other parts of the world for two days. Among the highlights were the presence of former Trump adviser Steve Bannon; former US ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau; Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox in Spain, and the ineffable Argentine Javier Milei.

The event started late and there were many gaps in the program, between one presentation and another. Outside the auditorium stands were set up for the media and organizations of Christian lawyers and the National Front for the Family.

political rise

In 2019, Verástegui was received by Donald Trump. The pretext was that he advocated for the dreamers (the undocumented young people with university studies that the redhead wanted to deport). Thanks to the visit, Trump said he would deal with the matter with the heart.

Verástegui’s arrival at these heights is explained, among other reasons, points out the expert Fred Álvarez, by the support offered to him by Raymond Leo Burke, an ultra-conservative American cardinal who was very influential in the Vatican until before he became an enemy of the pope’s reforms. Francisco.

Burke also opposed vaccination against covid-19 and claimed that a chip was implanted with the inoculation. In August of last year, infected, he was connected to a respirator, and survived.

The hosts ushered in a once-mythical figure: Lech Walesa, founder of Solidarity, Nobel laureate, and forgettable president of Poland who now makes a living from lecturing.

Last year, Walesa put up an ad applying for a job, because the foundation that bears her name was going out of business due to the pandemic.

Walesa made a jokey speech and also warned that he would say things that would not like: I’m on the right and I’m a supporter of globalism.

Throughout the day, the vast majority of the speakers would speak out against the evils of progressive globalism.

Verástegui also recited the Mexican opposition agenda and peppered it with (more) conservatism: from defending the INE he went to right to lifegoing through the criticism of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: I will answer you tomorrow (today) at sixhe stressed, with the tone of a savior of souls whose word is longed for by the entire society.

For victory to come, there must be martyrdom. Verástegui lamented: For too long, the region’s conservatives have been helplessheld.

But yeah. The tools to put things in order are expected to come out of the CPAC and, in one of those, the paternity of the new movement that would make Salvador Abascal look lukewarm is even being cooked: The true right is an orphan; she does not cowardly rightVerástegui emphasized.

against liberties

Shortly before 11 in the morning, several dozen activists, most of them young, arrived at the door of the hotel where the conclave is being held: Up, down, fascists to hell! There were Mexicans from Morena, Brazilians from the MST, solidarity groups with Cuba and Venezuela.

They never blocked the entrance, they sang overcome Y beautiful bye and, after a while, they withdrew from the place, giving those assembled the opportunity to say: Out there are those who deny us freedom of expression.

Virtually all of Latin America is painted redconfirmed in the middle of the afternoon Carlos A. Ramírez, a political scientist who introduces himself as Pro Life Army. And the protesters outside, he accused, are proof that they are looking for limit our fundamental freedoms (among them), religious freedom and worship.

An example? “The current attack of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation against Christianity… a frontal attack against the Church” due to the possible resolution that would prohibit installing birthplaces in public offices. Friends, it’s just the beginning..

Ramírez participated in a table of young conservativesin which the Ecuadorian Memela Fiallo was also present, who projected the photo of the execution of a priest in 1927 and received an ovation when she declared: We are the grandchildren of the cristeros who could not shoot.