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Xinhua 2018: 07: 16.09: 31
The Sao Paulo Forum in Cuba seeks to strengthen the "Consensus of our America"
People attend the XXIV meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum, Havana , capital of Cuba, July 15, 2018. More than a hundred political parties and social movements in Latin America will gather Sunday in Havana to participate in the XXIV meeting of the Forum of Sao Paulo, a forum of consensus to the left of the continent . (Xinhua / Joaquín Hernández)
By Raúl Menchaca
HAVANA, July 15 (Xinhua) – The XXIV Annual Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum, to be held today in La Havana seeks to strengthen the so-called "Consensus of our America", a document adopted a year ago to unite the leftist forces of the region. "It's a great guide to fighting for unity," he said. Cuban political scientist Abel González, who has just published the book "The consensus of our America: building the unity of the Sao Paulo Forum."
The text, published by the Ocean Sur Publishing House, badyzes 143 pages and five chapters, the current challenges of the Continental Left, which sums up two basic aspects: disunity and imperialism.
Nearly half a thousand delegates from a hundred parties, organizations and left-wing social movements attend the meeting in the Cuban capital that will meet until next Tuesday
The Havana researcher, 46, considers that the document approved in the Nicaraguan city of Managua in July last year, draws strategic lines.
"After making an objective diagnosis of the reality that he seeks to transform, draws strategic lines to make in the economic, social, political and ideological orders." The Sao Paulo forum has the following points: intention to make it an instrument of debate and political action, by disclosing it, by subjecting it to enrichment with its political bases and social movements, in correspondence with the conditions of each country ", he said.
The doctor of political science declared that the VIII Summit of the Americas, which met last April in the Peruvian city of Lima
"He demonstrated the need for the forces left to articulate and unite their actions in front of a moving enemy. He said that since the preparations for this summit, the US government has attempted to resurrect the so-called Monroe doctrine, which advocates since the nineteenth century that America is for Americans, understood as the [19659004] The researcher also listed the military threats against the Chavez revolution and the exclusion of Venezuela from the Lima meeting, through "the main instrument of domination in the region: the Organization of American States (OAS ). "
The academic, attorney and holder of a master's degree in international relations, said that the Sao Paulo Forum "has become an alternative to the struggle of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples".
González coincided with the executive secretary of the Sao Paulo Forum, the Brazilian Monica Valente, who, on her arrival in Havana, made the goal.
"To continue to debate with the Ares people, the unions, the social movements and create a great anti-neoliberal and anti-imperialist wave, and to build unitary strategies of struggle", he said. to the international relations of the Workers Party of Brazil clarified that Our America "is not a closed document, but reflects the issues and the project for which it is conducted: the objectives, strategy and priority tasks. [19659004AmongthesetasksValenteemphasizedtoincreasetheparticipationofyoungpeopleinpoliticalandsocialmovementsandyouthorganizationsthemselves
Founded in July 1990 by the Brazilian PT as a result of the ideas shared by the group. Former President of Cuba, Fidel Castro, and the former President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the conciliation mechanism adopted the name of the city where he met for the first time.
Since then, it has been an area of convergence, debate and joint action. ta, which seeks to materialize the construction of an alternative development model through greater continental integration.
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