Colombian President Gustavo Petro has reignited a regional controversy by publicly rejecting the existence of the so-called “Cartel de los Soles,” a criminal
Slightly unrelated but what are the feelings of comrades towards Petro? He’s a social democrat if I’m not mistaken, but being of the third world variety makes his dynamic with imperialism progressive, no?
I ask just to get a better sense of his strengths and weaknesses in the view of other Marxists.
maybe it’s a social democrat, but this is the closest to a real leftist government in 200 years. the only kinda marxist guerrilla are the ELN and they suffer of most of the issues of the rest of groups that started with a political mission in the 80’s: they’re lumpenbourgueoisie focused on drug business and drug business accesories.
the right-wing are a lot of comprador elites, gusanos and the classic bunch (they’re just in need to flex their nazi salutes to fulfill the full rightist pack) and they have a strong support of the us. if petro didn’t have won, netanyahu would receive a parade and would be treated like some kind of hero like guaidó in colombia by the ruling class
From what I have spoken with some fellow Colombian comrades, there were mixed reactions regarding Petro.
From the solidarity aspect, he certainly had his misses such as the time when almost every Latam country went against Venezuela while following the imperialist script to discredit the venezuelan elections last year. However, overall, Petro’s gov’t stays strong with solidarity with most issues in the region and globally.
Regarding internal aspects, there has been some reforms(Work reform and land reforms) but they have strong opposition from the Colombian bourgeoisie and the imperialist bootlickers. Also, we have to highlight that Colombia is a country that is currently occupied by the US through several military bases within their country. This aspect and the economic one(most of their exports go to the US regime) robs them from the necessary sovereignty to have more radical changes.
However, not all of it is grim. Right now, there is a strong initiative to strengthen bilateral economic exchanges with Venezuela and even Venezuela is starting to be a strong remittance sender to Colombia. If this trends and chinese trade increase displacing the US, then things could get interesting for this region.
Slightly unrelated but what are the feelings of comrades towards Petro? He’s a social democrat if I’m not mistaken, but being of the third world variety makes his dynamic with imperialism progressive, no?
I ask just to get a better sense of his strengths and weaknesses in the view of other Marxists.
maybe it’s a social democrat, but this is the closest to a real leftist government in 200 years. the only kinda marxist guerrilla are the ELN and they suffer of most of the issues of the rest of groups that started with a political mission in the 80’s: they’re lumpenbourgueoisie focused on drug business and drug business accesories. the right-wing are a lot of comprador elites, gusanos and the classic bunch (they’re just in need to flex their nazi salutes to fulfill the full rightist pack) and they have a strong support of the us. if petro didn’t have won, netanyahu would receive a parade and would be treated like some kind of hero like guaidó in colombia by the ruling class
I’d also like to know this, especially from columbian comrades.
From what I have spoken with some fellow Colombian comrades, there were mixed reactions regarding Petro.
From the solidarity aspect, he certainly had his misses such as the time when almost every Latam country went against Venezuela while following the imperialist script to discredit the venezuelan elections last year. However, overall, Petro’s gov’t stays strong with solidarity with most issues in the region and globally.
Regarding internal aspects, there has been some reforms(Work reform and land reforms) but they have strong opposition from the Colombian bourgeoisie and the imperialist bootlickers. Also, we have to highlight that Colombia is a country that is currently occupied by the US through several military bases within their country. This aspect and the economic one(most of their exports go to the US regime) robs them from the necessary sovereignty to have more radical changes.
However, not all of it is grim. Right now, there is a strong initiative to strengthen bilateral economic exchanges with Venezuela and even Venezuela is starting to be a strong remittance sender to Colombia. If this trends and chinese trade increase displacing the US, then things could get interesting for this region.
Map of the current US bases