Nothing better illustrates the failure of the so-called Summit of the Americas, an absurd and inopportune meeting, than the images of the violent police aggression against a woman who protested as U.S. President Joseph Biden's motorcade passed by on its way to inaugurate the event.
By Guillermo Alvarado
Nothing better illustrates the failure of the so-called Summit of the Americas, an absurd and inopportune meeting, than the images of the violent police aggression against a woman who protested as U.S. President Joseph Biden's motorcade passed by on its way to inaugurate the event.
The woman was brutally knocked down, slapped and forcibly reduced, while other security agents prevented those present from protecting her. Minutes later, the ruler told his incomplete audience that democracy is an essential element for the future.
The brief, high-flown and unsubstantial speech of the president of the world's leading power did not escape the booing of some young people who, for good measure, were detained by the officers present.
Nor will the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who in a forum for journalism students held as part of the "summit", was confronted by the passivity of the country after the murder of the Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
The journalist was also a U.S. citizen, but until today the White House has not issued any condemnation against the Israeli regime, guilty of this crime.
Luis Almagro, the head of the OAS, Washington's Ministry of Colonies, was also criticized by another citizen of the northern country for his responsibility in the coup d'état against the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, and his support to the usurper Jeanine Áñez.
"You have blood on your hands" shouted the young man, also detained by police, in reference to the massacres of Sacaba and Senkata, where at least 36 people died fighting for the restoration of democracy, precisely one of the themes of the continental meeting.
Dissent was also present in the very organization of the failed summit, as demonstrated by the case of professor Adela Panezo Asprilla, who resigned as spokesperson of the Democratic Governance working group, due to threats and aggressions against her.
Her fault was to question what kind of democracy exists in a country like the organizer, where corruption, nepotism, conflicts of interest prevail and the population is impoverished and many fall into misery.
By the way, his resignation was forced by groups linked to the counterrevolutionary mafia in Miami, who know very little about democracy.
For today, there is not enough space and time to comment on the documents emanating from this failed summit from its conception, which will be analyzed in detail in future works.
