Chile woke up and wounded the Lima group to death

"Chile, the most neoliberal country in the world, is the one with the biggest privatization of all sectors of public life: pensions, health, education, everything is privatized", explained a few days ago American economy Valeska Hesse, director of the Latin America and Caribbean Department of the Friedich Ebert Foundation, close to the German Social Democratic Party.

"The most neoliberal country in the world" according to Hesse, exploded and not because of the 30-cent increase in the metro that was just a trigger, but as the Chileans say today, for the 30 years of liberal politics that have made Chile the seventh most unequal country in the world according to data from the World Bank.

Chile would explode at some point. I had to do it. And the Liberals in the region were left without a lighthouse to follow. And the Lima group was weakened today, not knowing where to look to show the supposed advantages of the orthodox liberalism they defend.

The Lima group was born two years ago, in return for Unasur, straddling the right that the region had undertaken and following Washington's intentions to enter convoy Venezuela and oil. Nicolás Maduro.

Two years after its presentation in society, its main partners withdraw or are rejected by mass popular mobilizations.

Piñera finds no way out of a social crisis that has already caused, according to official figures, at least 18 people killed by the repression without generating a single demonstration of the Lima group.

According to data from the World Bank, Chile is the seventh most unequal country in the world

The president of Ecuador Lenin Moreno He followed a path similar to that of Piñera today. The attempt to implement a brutal adjustment at the request of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sparked a massive mobilization that forced the president to move the government from Quito to Guayaquil. Before the popular rejection Moreno had to reverse with the adjustment.

In Argentina, the rejection of the policy of another promoter of the Lima group, Mauricio Macri, came in another way. In the run-up to the elections, the Argentinians demonstrated during the ballot. On August 11, even the most risky political analyst had not been able to predict the overwhelming defeat suffered by Macri's adjustment policies and dreams of reelection.

The head of Cambiemos, a Regular flatterer of the Chilean model, lost its lighthouse just hours after the Argentineans go back to the polls to decide in the elections which economic model will mark the course of the country for the next four years.

Sebastián Piñera, Lenin Moreno, Mauricio Macri and Jair Bolsonaro face strong resistance, in different ways, in their countries

Meanwhile in Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, with his racist, misogynistic and homophobic preaching has become a pariah among world leaders who prefer to avoid taking a picture with him. The companion of Macri's formula, Michelangelo Pichetto, who sees a Marxist threat in the number of popular demonstrations that a street occupies, smiles next to Bolsonaro.

Uruguay, the country with the greatest equality in the region and one of the most stable economies, has refrained from joining the Lima group while the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador He withdrew his country from this body to maintain his position of non-interference in Venezuela. As Alberto Fernandez He had already warned that if he was elected president next Sunday, he would follow in the footsteps of Lóez Obrador and withdraw Argentina from the Lima group.