Bartlett: the CIA and the Intermarium
August 20, 2018
Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero
What is hidden in the historical trajectory of the anti-communist struggle in Latin America? While it is true that Manuel Bartlett's past is as it is, the remarks about the inclusion of this character in the next government of the republic move to reflect on the use and fear of geopolitical strategies for groups that benefited from the context of the cold war and they do not want to lose their privileges. In the absence of intelligence, but above all of legitimacy, the Mexican right insists on maintaining the fallacy and conspiratorial astuteness as the only strategy to achieve power.
Bartlett is a passive asset of Mexican and American security groups. Maybe that's why the right fears him so much. Maybe that's why the US government will never act against him as Rafael Loret de Mola supposed. The events in which this character played were always guided by the fascist consensus that linked the Holy See and the United States of America against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. One of its edges is called Intermarium.
During the second half of the 20th century, the fear of the communist Masonic Jewish conspiracy caused the Americans to grant the Nazis, intransigent integral Catholics, businessmen and conservatives; infiltrate all Latin American corners. The actions to maintain Latin America within the "free world" were diverse. From the promotion of academic programs of political science, liberal press, Catholic universities, to the formation of white guards, control of public administration, formation of a business class, infiltration of national security and, lately, the governance of the organized crime.
Revolutionary nationalism in Mexico constituted a myth, an approach impracticable by the geopolitical context after the Second World War. The patriotic fraud was called Intermarium and it served so that the different rights were succeeded in the political and economic power. The Mexican right can not pretend surprised by the behavior of the "men of the system", with whom they coexisted and instructed. The fear of Manuel Bartlett is nothing other than the fear of a set of actions that they created and developed in a common way. They can not exonerate themselves, historically they are more responsible.
The neoliberal globalization constituted a reactivation of the common interests between the Latin American and Anglo-Saxon rights; however, at the time of the balance, North America maintains losses and errors like those of the USSR in relation to its political satellites. The United States has suffered a total erosion due to the lack of correspondence and autonomy of the other emerging liberal and capitalist nations. The signals of Donald Trump to the political and business class of Mexico are more than certain, that is why the North American geopolitics is changing and emancipating itself from fascist consensuses such as the Intermarium. Mexico did not become the average liberal power that is adequately related socially and economically with the neighbor to the north, as promised by the right when it was assimilated to the anticommunist strategies of the CIA and the Intermarium. Raymundo RivaPalacio wonders if it had not been more successful, in this strategy, that Manuel Bartlett had been president of Mexico instead of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
The Cold War ended and Russia is closer to a government of the Black Century than Bolshevik. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agree on interests to protect their respective nations. In the case of the United States, a cleansing of the intelligence apparatus is generated, as well as a disconnection of the "freeloaders" who took advantage, to the excess, of a fear of Russia that was always false. The crusade against corruption in Mexico must go through a similar strategy: emancipate many areas of the country that the right dominates, for example, higher education.
Donald Trump builds policies against Mexican immigrants in North America to retaliate for the abuses that powerful and corrupt Mexicans commit; however, in the situation of characters like Manuel Bartlett, the US government and the new Mexican regime must pay attention. The Mexican right only knows how to create demented myths that contribute nothing to the development of a country, its leaders are conspiracy experts where the abusive, racist, clerical and gachupines of always exist. Mexico's new government will not rebuild relations with the United States as long as the corporate sector refuses to pay its historical responsibility. Mexican corruption is deeply rooted in private initiative, men like Manuel Bartlett know it and that explains the deep fear that they have