The discreet charm of President Boric

By: Beatrice E. Rangel - 28/03/2023

Chilean President Gabriel Boric saved the Ibero-American Summit from irrelevance by expressing his opinion on the course that the Nicaraguan regime has taken. And while the rest of his colleagues agonized over his words, President Milenio breathed fighting spirit into a meeting destined to be forgotten. And, of course, he nailed a painful pike in Flanders to the complicity of the countries of the region with the processes of democratic destruction that are flourishing everywhere.

In a certain way, Boric fulfilled exactly the same role as the boy who shouted "the emperor is naked!" And the rest of those present, except for Lacalle Pou, found out for the first time and publicly that they are all naked. Because they have failed in the fundamental duty of every democratic leader: to represent the sovereign. And it happens that the sovereigns of the continent repudiate and reject the totalitarianisms of the 21st century. It is enough to read the reports of the main pollsters and the measurements of Latino Barómetro to realize that the peoples of Latin America want to live in democracy and that their current distancing is due not to a systemic repudiation but to a temporary one that expresses the immense discontent of some populations They do not see in the leadership of the continent the capacity to take them to the Eden of economic stability and political freedoms.

Hence, Boric's intervention demanding that his companions not pay attention to the distressing problem of the democratic destruction carried out by the Ortega-Murillo couple in Nicaragua was speaking for the sovereigns of the continent.

In this context, the other issue not touched on by Boric stood out in silence: the possible implosion of the Venezuelan regime. This subject was the invisible and uncomfortable passenger of the summit. That nation that has had to endure over the course of two decades the greatest plunder of public property ever carried out in the Americas; The most sinister wave of crimes against humanity and the largest emigration in the entire history of the region is now witnessing a struggle for power between its henchmen. And in this case the silence is understandable. The Venezuelan regime is the only one completely engulfed by transnational organized crime. Consequently, any international statement against it is responded to by sending criminal gangs that are financed by illicit trades (drugs, people, minerals and protected species) create chaos. Under not very encouraging world economic horizons and worse geopolitical scenarios, most of the leaders of Latin America prefer not to unleash the wrath of the Venezuelan regime.

But Boric's statement is going to end up involving Venezuela because, like the boy in the story, Boric has shown the nakedness of the continent in its protection of human rights and freedom, denouncing a regime of a similar nature. And it will no longer be possible for his colleagues to look in any direction other than the defense of democracy.

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