The San Pablo Forum ends in a Venezuela under …

From Caracas

Saturday at midnight, fireworks, roars and gunfire took place west of Caracas. It's a custom, it's one of the ways neighborhoods celebrate the day of Hugo Chávez's birth. He would have been 65 years old. It was heard by the hills, downtown and international guests who attended the San Pablo forum which was held between Thursday and Sunday in the Venezuelan capital.

There were 190 organizations, including political parties, social movements, workers' organizations, intellectuals, artists, MEPs, personalities such as the grandson of Nelson Mandela, Salvador Allende and the President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz Canel. The meeting has been strongly attacked by continental rights since before its realization for one main reason: its development in Venezuela and the resulting support to the process led by Nicolás Maduro.

The last meeting of the Forum took place the year before in Havana, place of the political genesis of the space that exists for 25 years. The initiative to build the forum San Pablo was born from the will of two key men: Fidel Castro and Lula da Silva. It was the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, the neoliberal trail, the loss of left landmarks and progressivities, the emergence of new political experiments and tests election.

The agenda of the Caracas Forum was marked by several central axes. One of them was the characterization of "the multi-faceted, reactionary offensive of US imperialism and the allied oligarchic right" under way on the continent. In this scenario, central points were discussed, such as the persecution of popular leaders through the judiciary in alliance with the hegemonic media. The slogan "free Lula" was repeated every day.

One of the central points of what was discussed during the meeting was the need to strengthen the unity between the leftist and progressive forces to cope with this advance, with points in common at the same time. agenda, such as the call for the end of the blockade against Cuba and the badbadination of social leaders Human Rights in Colombia.

Part of the debate and conclusions focused on the next electoral scenarios to be held in October in Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia. There was written support for what will be the candidacies of Alberto Fernández-Cristina Fernández, Daniel Martínez-Graciela Villar and Evo Morales-Álvaro García Linera.

During the days of the Forum, events illustrating the current period on the continent have occurred, such as the resignation of the Governor of Puerto Rico, the new sanctions imposed by the United States on the Venezuelan economy to block the circuits food imports, as well as a mobilization for Colombia against the systematic badbadinations of leaders that have occurred in recent years.

The closing ceremony took place after a visit to the neighborhood of Cuartel de la Montaña, in the neighborhood of January 23, where the remains of Hugo Chávez lie. Presidents Maduro, Díaz-Canel, the President of the National Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, and Mónica Valente, from the Workers Party of Brazil, representative of the Forum were present at the closing.

Here again, support for the Venezuelan government was legitimately elected on 20 May 2018 for the Bolivarian Revolution, the rejection of the unilateral US aggression policy and the need for dialogue to reach a peaceful and agreed solution. to the conflict

Thus, Caracas again organized an international event that expressed support for Maduro. The first took place a few days earlier with the meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, where 120 governments also expressed their gratitude to the elected authorities and not to the fictional construction of the country but truly to the diplomacy of Juan Guaidó.

The completion of the forum thus leaves necessary support in times of uncertainty and badault. The news regarding the Barbados-Government dialogues has been halted in recent days. In addition, spokesmen for Donald Trump's administration expressed their support for Guaidó and his threat, as did Claver-Carone, the leader of Latin America at the White House. claimed that Maduro had term "to leave power.

Everyday life in Venezuela continues to rage between material difficulties, trench resistance and episodes of increasing underground violence in border areas and neighborhoods, such as Saturday, with the badbadination of six Chavez militants in the city. 39; State. Barinas in the hands of the paramilitaries.