Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard went to Chile to seek greater Latin American integration with the left-wing president-elect, Gabriel Boric.
He also handed over the presidency of Celac to the Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, who in the previous meeting of the organization in our country decreed the creation of the Buenos Aires / Mexico political axis, something never seen in recent times.
Celac, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, does not include Canada or the United States, but it does include Cuba, just the opposite of the OAS, which Celac would like to displace.
Before the elections in Chile, a character, Pedro Castillo, had won the presidency of Peru, who must also be considered from the left, highly esteemed by President López Obrador, to the point of having sent him a mission to help him in his government.
The elections of the year that begin anticipate triumphs of the left in Colombia, with Gustavo Petro and in Brazil, with the possible return of Lula …
Few central or liberal governments will remain on the continent: Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Panama.
The pandemic and its crisis have tipped the political pendulum towards a kind of new Latin American rose tide, although different from the previous one in at least three respects.
First, the new tide of the left includes two more dictatorships: Nicaragua and Venezuela. In the first tide there was only Cuba. Dictatorships have advanced on the continental left, and in Celac.
Second, the new governments of the left do not have a horizon of economic growth, nor a boom of raw materials like the one that accompanied the first wave. They arrive with the economies spent and contracted.
Third, Mexico is now an active part of the wave of left-wing Latin American governments that want to beat neoliberalism from the legitimacy of their democratic triumphs.
In this new wave of leftist governments, starting with Mexico, there is no clear vision of how to make the economy grow, or how to combat inequality.
Nor is there a very clear commitment to democracy, as the new tide has populist temptations and fraternally tolerates left-wing dictatorships in the neighborhood.
In the new Latin American cycle, the market and democracy will grind alike.
Hector Aguilar Camín
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