The imperialist onslaught has deeply affected the members of the FSP and those who are united around it, while its objectives and its growing importance are being undermined and the actions, pronouncements and areas of common work it promotes are being silenced.
But why are they afraid of it and, therefore, attacking the Sao Paulo Forum?
The FSP has become the principal venue for the political and ideological debate of the parties and movements of the Latin American and Caribbean left, as a core mechanism for coordination, declaration and joint action by its members, in relation to those issues on which consensus is achieved. In the history of the Forum, the diversity of the political forces that comprise it has always been respected.
It also serves as a thermometer of the existing correlation of forces within the Latin American and Caribbean left, both in a general sense and in relation to particular issues or conjunctures, and the interaction between its members has made possible a political and personal knowledge among the leaders of the parties and movements of the region, which has no precedent, resisting more than two decades in which -until now- there have been no conditions to build a political or social grouping that overcomes it.
For the right, it is a priority to try to annul this symbolic space for concertation, while for the left, it is essential to continue consolidating it as an instrument for greater and better political articulations in pursuit of the anti-imperialist struggle in the region.
Today the Forum “Overcoming the Blockade from the People’s Power” took place, where spokespersons of the Venezuelan popular movement participated to explain to the world how the communal organization resists the criminal blockade that the U.S. has arbitrarily imposed on the Bolivarian Republic.
In addition, the conversation “Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Venezuela” was held.
Diosdado Cabello: Sao Paulo Forum to Discuss Regional Situation
In an interview with teleSUR, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, specified some important points for his delegation to the XXV meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum, which brings together left-wing movements and political parties from all over the world until July 28.
Politicians of “the highest quality,” as Cabello called the group that attends the international meeting, have met in the South American nation to debate the current situation of the continent in the face of the threats represented by the imperialist powers and their right-wing collaborators in Latin America.
The leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Psuv) hopes that the current meeting will build on the success obtained during the previous meeting in Havana, Cuba in terms of the quality of the discussions and agreements reached there. The theme of this edition of the Sao Paulo Forum is anti-imperialism and the struggle against those who want to implement hegemonic power throughout the world.
The Venezuelan delegation will focus its discussion on the blockade and the resistance of the South American country to the threats received not only by Venezuela but also by Cuba and Nicaragua, and how the sanctions imposed by the White House have affected the Venezuelan people.
Cabello assured that his country resists the most powerful empire of all times: “every day they commit a new violation against Venezuela, new sanctions, electromagnetic attacks”.
“If they were successful here, I’m sure they would apply that formula in other countries,” he said. He added that they will speak out about the situation in Palestine and the attacks and persecutions of leftist leaders in Latin America by right-wing governments and imperialism.
So far, he says, expectations have been exceeded in terms of the number of attendees. In his opinion, this event could set a guideline with respect to the events that occur in the world in the coming years because the agreements are not immediately implemented.
As has happened recently in Puerto Rico, and taking into account the political attrition in Venezuela of the adversaries of the Bolivarian Revolution, “the most important thing is that the peoples continue to awaken, continue advancing and that we remain united regardless of whether or not our proposals are accepted.
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“The United States was greatly affected by the meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (Mnoal) here in Venezuela where 120 countries expressed support for the Bolivarian Revolution and President Nicolás Maduro and attempted to sabotage the event,” said Cabello.
Attempts to thwart the presence of some participants were not few, according to Cabello. “They don’t like these kinds of events, they like events in which the right will pay homage to the United States, where they meet to seek to harm the world’s progressive movements”.
He commented that these imperialist practices have been constant in countries where the left has ruled and then power has passed to the right as in the cases of Brazil, Argentina or Honduras.
“They meet and we let them do it quietly because their conclusions never take into account the people, not here, here one of the fundamental things is that there is nothing above the human being,” said the Venezuelan politician.
Among the objectives of the Sao Paulo Forum is that ” From here we leave with much greater unity, we know that all that are coming do not share the same ideas (…) and leave here with a proposal of activities that we are capable of carrying out”.
This is a complicated moment for the Latin American left, since the rise of the right has hampered the integration of the continent’s peoples.