The São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group were protagonists and heirs of the so-called “pink tide” of left-wing governments that spread throughout the region at the beginning of the millennium.
Two months after the death of former President Piñera, his legacy is a subject of debate. For some, he was a builder of bridges and regional institutions, while others see him as the precursor of the radical populist right in the southern country.
In addition to the absolute support of the autocrats Maduro, Díaz-Canel and Ortega to the Russian invasion, the leftist governments of Lula da Silva and Petro have also consented to the invasion of this ultra-right regime.
The Puebla Group is wrong to believe that the crisis of progressivism is merely a matter of unity. The crisis has burdens that are leading it to the abyss: its obsession with perpetuation in power and state corruption and inefficiency.
Cuba is experiencing the worst economic and social crisis since the revolution. Why the success of the Sino-Vietnamese model that keeps the Communist Party in power has not been followed by Cuba’s government?
The alternative scenarios to republican democracy seem to be clustered in the failed state of Haiti, or in the unpopular autocratic models of the left or in the popular autocratic models of the right, such as El Salvador.
