After the Cold War, a decline began to take shape for the communist regimes, which predicted an expansion of capitalism as a hegemonic and paradigmatic model; however, more than 30 years after those historical events that led to the pragmatic (but not ideological) weakening of that political, economic and social doctrine, a new current emerges in Latin America (LA) that tries to vindicate its postulates.
This expansionist wave continues to gain strategic positions and the last of them occurred in Colombia with the victory of the ultra-leftist Gustavo Petro.
Given this victory for Petro and the very probable return of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency of Brazil in October of this year, a new scenario would be configured where, with the support of some of the nations with the greatest weight in GDP (Product Gross Domestic) of the central and southern regions of America, the moderate left could be absorbed by a more radical one such as the one represented today by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, a geopolitical integration platform that seeks the union of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and which is known as ALBA.
Proof of this, for example, is the fact that in Chile, Gabriel Boric, its young man (36 years old) and recently elected president, has begun to change his speech and send signals that suggest hesitation about his initial position of demarcation with respect to to the governments of Cuba and Venezuela.
And it is that at the time (in the electoral contest), both Gustavo Petro in Colombia, and Gabriel Boric in Chile and now with Lula da Silva in Brazil, have faced smear campaigns by the opposition, where the main argument has been the risk to turn those nations into another Venezuela. But the reality is that these attacks did not have the desired effects, and that same course could take place in the next elections that will take place in nine other Latin American nations between 2023 and 2024, including our country.
With this background, the hackneyed strategies of the opposition in Mexico, which seem to replicate the same and failed campaigns of those countries, makes them very predictable for a president who is an expert in media management. In addition, the absence of a unifying and dragging figure, makes us see a disjointed opposition and, as if that were not enough, without the slightest moral authority due to the scandals of its party leaders.
In this way and given the growing electoral dominance that Morena maintains, whose main driver is the popularity and approval of AMLO, it is almost a fact that in 2024 the voters will endorse their trust, so the most interesting unknown will no longer be in the electoral result, but in the previous election of who will be the “corcholata” that is designated candidate.
Depending on who this application falls on, we will see what Mexico’s position will be before the consolidation of the Bolivarian bloc that is advancing in Latin America and that seeks to radically change the neoliberal model that, like a kitchen recipe to achieve economic prosperity, the United States tried to sell it to the world as a panacea, through that famous “Washington Consensus” in the eighties and nineties.
Hence, today more than ever, our neighboring country is already showing a certain desperation in its strategies to stop the growth of ALBA, which is why the presidential election in Mexico in 2024 has become a topic of great interest for them. , aware of how transcendental it is for them to keep us aligned with their interests and commercial impositions.
In this scenario, on the consolidation and/or expansionism that ALBA may have, the dawn with which we Mexicans could wake up in the near future will depend to a great extent, depending of course on the ideological flag (moderate or radicalist) adopted by whoever be the winner in two years.
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