García Luna, Bartlett and tough times
Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero
Although several journalists and intellectuals speak of the decline of Mario Vargas Llosa, it is enough to read some of his novels and articles to understand the importance that he has - and will have - as one of the main Latin American thinkers. Perhaps for this reason, Juan Carlos Monedero urgently requests the socialization of his works. Vargas Llosa's literature continues to be the best political science to understand us.
The author's recent novel that makes reference to the coup d'état articulated by the United States in Guatemala against General Jacobo Arbenz gives rise to a perspective on imperialist interventionism on the Ibero-American left and right. Each governmental period, whether or not it has partisan alternations, the question always lies in synchronizing with North American capitalist interests. The Hispanic-Latino government that does not subjugate itself to the oligarchic machinery of Yankee imperialism will be harassed - in the most brutal way possible - until it complies with the demands of the United Fruit Company or is overthrown. With everything and that a fact does little to confirm theories, the idea of US imperialist geopolitics repeated in all times and places in Latin America is absolute.
The American conspiracy against Guatemalan democracy always occurs where there is a United States embassy. Therefore, there should be no surprise about the García Luna case and the war against drug trafficking in our country, the same questions that are asked of former presidents -particularly Calderón Hinojosa- can be asked in different periods of national history, past and present. present. Is there a difference between the tasks that García Luna and Manuel Bartlett performed under the national security scheme in the service of the United States? Is there a difference between the counterinsurgent forces and the drug cartels used in Yankee geopolitics? Has the CIA changed your view of Latin America? The governments employed by North American imperialism are always going to wage wars against their people, even a government like the one in Q4 that has not known how to detach itself - and has no possibility whatsoever - of North American tutelage. Why were there and are there characters like García Luna and Manuel Bartlett in Mexico? Because that is the way the United States wants it and there is little that can be done to prevent it. Be it the Cold War, the Dirty War, the War against Drug Trafficking, it is always a war against the people so that, despite the deficit of the North American economy, the situation allows them to continue being a superpower.
George Friedman envisions a war between Mexico and the United States in 2080 due to drug trafficking, but North America's secret war against our country has always existed and if the conflict increases, it will not be for the geopolitical reasons that said author supposes. If remittances and drug trafficking served to strengthen the economic and military sector of the country, society, at least, would have left the marginality so wide that distinguishes it a long time ago. The narco-empire is the United States, there are the stratospheric profits from criminal activities, we only put the dead. It has always been like this. The conflict will occur because the mafia cartels and millions of immigrants are in the United States and have been empowered enough to prevent being drawn out of the imperialist economic dynamics. That conflict has originated the disruptive policy of Donald Trump that talks about invading Mexico or putting up Walls, over time he will discover that the 250 thousand soldiers or the walls must be implanted in California, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona or Florida. The United States has caught the Failed State that it has implemented so much everywhere.
Unfortunately, the decline of the United States has not served to leave the script of hard times. The media terrorism, the gringo financing for all the political forces and organized crime groups, the lack of national unity, the inconsistency of a political and governmental project, are indicative that we were, are and will be, the North American Sicily that will provide the millions of deaths that are necessary to continue thanking remittances.
America's irrational capitalism and racism is not going to change. They are the postmodern Nazis that the world must intelligently face to solve the dilemma of coexistence. Either we understand how right Ernesto Guevara was when he demanded missiles in revolutionary Cuba or we promote the North American civil war so that a new socio-political liberalism may emerge. With Monedero I say, well, you have to read more Mario Vargas Llosa.