End of which cycle? | Why is it misleading to think of a …

In the middle of this decade, and coincidence – almost unintentionally ?, many people rushed with the deployment of the restorative offensive of the empire to announce the gradual "end of the cycle" in Latin America. The defeat of Kirchnerism in 2015 and the illegal and illegitimate overthrow of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 as well as the grotesque trial and imprisonment of Lula appeared as unequivocal signs of the beginning of a new historical cycle. Only the prophets of this epiphany have never dared to risk something very elementary: what is the result? I've finished a cycle, well, but: does that mean that another one has started? Absolute silence

Two alternatives Or they have adhered to Francis Fukuyama's thesis on the end of history, an absurdity if there are any; or as the most daring insinuated, with a feigned concern, we were at the beginning of a long cycle of right-wing governments. I say feign because, hypercritical with the governments of the cycle supposedly bankrupt to pectore, preferred the arrival of a pure and hard right which, allegedly, would accentuate the contradictions of the system and magically open the door to who knows what … for, surprisingly, none Critics of the progressive cycle have spoken of socialist or communist revolution or the need to deepen the anti-imperialist struggle. Therefore, his purely rhetorical and academic argument died in the mere certification of the alleged closing of a scene and nothing else.

Now, all these speeches have collapsed sharply in recent weeks. In fact, they were already overcoming the unexpected triumph of López Obrador in Mexico and his late integration into the "progressive cycle". His victory showed that although he was seriously injured, he was not dead. The debacle of macrismo and its almost certain defeat in the presidential election of October this year and the recent revelation of the illegal and immoral maneuvers created between the corrupt judge Sergio Moro and the prosecutors of the Brazilian judiciary to send Lula in prison hard blow to the two supports on which rested the beginning of the so-called "post-progressive" cycle.

In Argentina, the Macristas are waiting for the worst, knowing that only a miracle would save them from defeat. And Bolsonaro is on the brink of the abyss because of the economic crisis in Brazil and for having appointed as super minister of justice an unscrupulous lawyer who categorically denies his claim to propose a transparent and unpolluted government, inspired by the highest moral principles. of Christianity that the pastors of the evangelical church instilled in him when – appropriate and opportunistic, they renamed him in the river Jordán as Jair "Messiah" Bolsonaro. Leaks from WhatsApp's cat and conversations between Moro and the prosecutors published by The Intercept, as well as multiple complaints of corruption filed against him and his children, reveal that this holy man called to wash his sins of Brazilian politics. it's nothing but the leader of a criminal gang, an impostor, a fairy quack, a madman whose days at Plbadto's palace seem to be numbered. And keeping Lula in jail will be increasingly difficult given the legal joke that was perpetrated against him and exposed to the light of day. And free Lula is a major danger for the current Brazilian government.

The foregoing should not be interpreted as an badertion that the cycle begun with Chávez's triumph in Venezuela's December 1998 presidential elections continues unabated. The destruction works carried out by Macri, Piñera, Duque, Bolsonaro and the real "armada Brancaleone" that Trump and his predecessor have set up in Latin America have suffered a lot lately. But the reality is stubborn and a setback is not a defeat, nor a specific backward movement. The long march for the emancipation of our peoples, which has never been linear or ascending, is taking place and will eventually expel the governments of soldiers, reactionaries and sepoys who now submerge Latin America. And we will not have to wait long to see it.