Bolivarian screams

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 24/11/2023

Screech is a strong word, described as “inarticulable sound of a high-pitched, unpleasant voice, of high volume, emitted by people or animals, generally in situations of pain or desperation.”

The term fits to describe the strident reaction of the Colombian head of state Gustavo Petro to the triumph of Javier Milei, the new president of Argentina, as well as the hysterical comments of the leaders of 21st century socialism loaded with insults and slander.

The former guerrilla has said that the electoral result “is sad for Latin America”; and before he maintained that the libertarian “returns us to Pinochet and Videla,” an argument that the Mexican López Obrador repeats today.

Petro is affected because the Datexco survey (November 2023) gives him 29% approval and 64% rejection, a figure reflected in the insult he received during his team's soccer match against Brazil.

Without a doubt, new attacks will follow, each time more pointed, because one of the most powerful enemies of Chavismo has been elected.

For this reason, Maduro has reacted wildly by stating that “in Argentina the neo-Nazi extreme right that intends to lead a colonial project for Latin America won.”

Let us remember that, previously, Milei maintained that “Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel are dictators, drug traffickers and terrorists. In their countries there are no human rights and poverty is 90%. Opponents are kidnapped, tortured and murdered. Receiving them in Argentina would be an international shame.”

He also expressed that "Cuba is a prison and the Castros - Fidel and Raúl - are murderers."

The political field, then, was marked a long time ago and we do not doubt that the Milei regime will expose the misdeeds of Chavismo, accustomed to fiercely attacking its critics, but not to being questioned and much less attacked.

Milei's victory also reconfigures regional geopolitics at a time when leftist governments are collapsing.

In Peru, Castillo is imprisoned for being a coup leader and corrupt, while his party, Perú Libre, is in agony.

In Bolivia, President Arce and Evo Morales are self-destructing, claiming links to drug trafficking and the Movement towards Socialism is eroded.

In Venezuela, Maduro cannot hide the disaster of his administration, loaded with evidence of corruption and crimes against humanity. They are reminded, physically, by almost 8 million Venezuelans who migrated due to lack of employment, food, health care and security.

Now the Llanero dictator has gone into schizophrenia because opinion polls project that the social democrat María Corina Machado (MCM) almost quadruples him in voting intentions for next year's elections, from 43.2% to 12.1%, according to August Megaanalysis, and 47.2% to 13.5%, according to ORC Consultores in September, respectively.

Faced with the evidence of a catastrophic defeat, Maduro has pulled out all the stops and used the Comptroller's Office to disqualify MCM, despite the fact that this is an exclusive power of the judges according to article 65 of the Magna Carta.

Another interesting fact is that in Ecuador Correismo lost the presidential elections against the conservative Daniel Noboa and in Nicaragua the satrap Daniel Ortega has had to close temples, confiscate the assets of the Church, close the media and deport hundreds of his compatriots, prior withdrawal of nationality. An indiscriminate and lethal repression that has caused 605,000 Nicas – 9% of the population – to move to Costa Rica.

Milei's political work announces to be twofold. On the one hand, compact the democratic currents of the hemisphere to counteract the Lula Government, the powerful São Paulo Forum and Cuba. On the other hand, raise your voice in defense of those detained, tortured and murdered by left-wing dictatorships. We imagine that in each international event or through its ambassadors at the UN and the OAS, the leftist bloc will be exposed in its acts of barbarism and corruption.

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