Showing posts with label Intermarium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Intermarium. Show all posts

Sunday, May 10, 2026

Intermarium of Silence

 Intermarium of Silence

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero




Jean Meyer writes about Andrea Ricardi's work in Confabulario of El Universal (May 3, 2026). The review of Pius XII and his role during the Holocaust, while attempting to nuance the image of the pontiff, fails to avoid oversimplifying a much more complex reality: the structural ambiguity and lack of a clear and consistent stance on the part of the Catholic High Hierarchy regarding totalitarian regimes. It even calls into question the vast body of Jewish historiography on the Holocaust, the German people, Eastern Europe, and the role of Catholic nationalism.


The historical trajectory of the Intermarium Project, which seeks to consolidate an anti-communist bloc and, in many cases, aligns with the interests of the Church, reveals that this ambiguity was not an isolated incident, but a deliberate strategy that has endured over time.


The Church, in its eagerness to maintain its power and authority, has shown itself willing to collaborate with or remain silent in the face of any power that is favorable to it, regardless of whether it comes from a Nazi state, a drug-trafficking state, a corrupt political boss, the Soviet Union, China, or other dictatorships. The Church's "ambiguity" is not a mistake, but a tactic that has facilitated its survival.


This attitude shows that the Church's true stance is not the defense of human rights, but the preservation of its own power structure.


The history of the Intermarium Project and of Catholic nationalism in general demonstrates its adaptation by evading the ethical and moral commitment that the religion itself preaches; it should come as no surprise that, ultimately, the Church has proven to be more loyal to its institutional interests than to the values ​​it claims to promote.


In this sense, the discussion surrounding Pius XII cannot be limited to his silence or isolated actions, but must be framed within a broader logic: that of an institution which, in its quest for survival, has often preferred ambiguity.


From the perspective of the work *Intermarium: Evangelio Anticomunista* (Intermarium: Anti-Communist Gospel), these discourses can be understood not as isolated accidents or prejudices, but as components of a power strategy that seeks to maintain a hegemonic order and resist changes that threaten its legitimacy.


Catholic-rooted anti-communism in Mexico, or in Latin America, can be considered a microphysics of power that operates at subconscious and symbolic levels, and which has a great potential for escalation if it is not confronted with a critical review of its roots and functions.


This structure and its organizational intent are key to understanding the dynamics of power and resistance that still dominate in these contexts today.


Anti-communism is a form of Judeophobia that operates on different levels: not only as an individual attitude, but also as a “structure of resistance” that reinforces an exclusionary identity.


In the Mexican context, this Judeophobia without Jews is a way to maintain a discourse of victimization and confrontation with an external or internal enemy presented as a “virus” that must be combated to preserve the purity and authority of traditional Catholic institutions.


This mechanism of institutional sacralization, which seeks to keep society in a state of dependence and obedience, also explains why in Mexico, as in other countries with a history of strong religious influence and authoritarianism, these narratives remain functional.


The strategy is not only about religion, but also about how these ideas are articulated to defend certain privileges and an order that, in reality, seeks to perpetuate itself by constructing enemies and delegitimizing questioning.


The Catholic Church can generate a more progressive Vatican Council III than the previous one, but the task is to put theory into practice and end the feudal practices and inertia of an authoritarian and, at times, totalitarian culture.

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Hungary and the Intermarium

Hungary and the Intermarium

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero




The fall of Viktor Orbán in 2026 marks a turning point that compels us to revisit Fredo Arias King's warning about the nature of transitions. For this author, democratic success in Eastern Europe depended on a radical break with previous power structures, something that Orbán's illiberal model simply reformulated under a modern nationalism. Now, with the triumph of Péter Magyar, Hungary faces the dilemma of the Intermarium: that belt of nations between the Baltic and the Black Sea desperately seeking to shake off Russian influence while attempting to assimilate Western values ​​that do not always align with its historical reality.


As Jesús Silva Herzog Márquez has aptly pointed out, the change in Hungary is not an automatic liberal restoration, but rather a conservative replacement. This lesson is vital for Mexico. We often believe that democracy ends with the vote count, but as analyzed in the volume edited by Ilan Bizberg and published by Cal y Arena, transitions are profound processes where geopolitics and state control weigh as much as, or even more than, popular will. The Hungarian experience teaches us that a populist regime can capture institutions in such a way that, even after its defeat, the state apparatus continues to operate according to the logic of the past. For Mexico, the lesson is that alternation of power is not synonymous with democratization if it is not accompanied by a reconstruction of the rule of law and genuine independence of technical bodies.


Hungary's difficulty in breaking free from Russia's energy and political orbit demonstrates that geography is, at times, a stronger destiny than the ballot box. Democracy, in this sense, requires not only a civil society that desires it, but also an international context that enables it. Silva Herzog's warning about the structural fragility of populism resonates today: corruption and arrogance ultimately exhaust authoritarian models, but the vacuum they leave is usually filled by figures from within the same system. If Mexico wants to avoid becoming a laboratory for illiberal democracy, it must understand that freedom is not guaranteed simply by winning an election, but by ensuring that the new power does not inherit the vices of the defeated. Society must desire democracy, but it must also have the patience and astuteness to dismantle a regime designed to be eternal.

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Western Crime

 Western Crime

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero




The central hypothesis proposed by Viviane Forrester holds that antisemitism in the West is a historical constant that tends to intensify. Europe bears the primary responsibility for creating the Arab-Israeli conflict and remains indifferent to the fate of Jewish culture.


This rejection and hatred of Jews seems to perpetuate itself, even allowing for extreme situations after the Holocaust.


The annihilation of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe is an episode that the Western world avoids addressing directly. During World War II, this rejection took on global dimensions, culminating in the non-admission of Jewish emigrants and their fate in the extermination camps. The concept of the Intermarium has profound implications for global geopolitics.


However, European Jews did not seek conflict over the so-called Holy Land; many would have preferred to remain in European nations, but they still faced relentless rejection, being expelled and rarely welcomed.


The vast majority perished due to the Nazis' death machine, and Europe never granted them a square meter to form their homeland.


The idea of ​​a possible Jewish state in Eastern Europe was a central element of Operation Barbarossa and the development of hell like never before on earth.


In the current context, progressive populism has fueled a new kind of antisemitism accompanied by an idealization of Arab terrorism, reflecting a self-destructive tendency and an attempt to erase certain historical values ​​of Western Judeo-Christian culture.


Rather than focusing on transcendent legacies, this trend seems to be more focused on an empty and purposeless consumerism.


This has resulted in a serious deviation from Western culture, which tends to glorify deeply anti-Western civilizations while justifying the elimination of its own cultural pillars.


Currently, the West seems less interested in allowing Israel to defend its identity and territorial sovereignty, adding to a cultural and political crisis that is moving away from fundamental principles and calling into question the values ​​that once defined these societies.


The West is experiencing an ontological suicide, as the thinkers Eric Zemour and Alain Finkielkrauft expressed with regard to France.


The values ​​of Western progressive populism are not embraced by powers like China, Russia, or Iran, which take opposing positions.


This raises a troubling question: could the world be a better place if one of these nations replaced the United States as the dominant power? As in rapidly Islamizing France, Western progressive populism will surely be complete and fulfilled when the political parties of Arab fundamentalism govern them.


On the other hand, Israel does not need external defenders; its history has taught it to protect itself with determination and effectiveness.


Despite pressure from the same powers responsible for historical crimes against the Jews, Israel continues to be considered a Western bastion without full recognition as an independent and sovereign nation.


In the face of all this, Israel has managed to reclaim its territory through laborious and persistent effort. Although, once again, the leaders of the European nations that committed the Western crime seek to force it to remain a spearhead, they will not grant it self-determination. Will they be able to? Israel has earned its land inch by inch, and these are no longer the days of Baron Hirsh. Israel is not France, and Netanyahu is not Macron.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Alaska Puts the Intermarium at Risk

Alaska Puts the Intermarium at Risk

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero




The vision of the Intermarium, the age-old idea of a federation of countries between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic Seas, has been proposed as one of the historic solutions to Eastern Europe's vulnerability; however, this region has historically been the epicenter of conflicts dating back centuries. The fundamental problem with the Intermarium is that it has never achieved true cohesion. Historically, each country in the region has prioritized its own interests in the face of a common threat, be it Russian, Ottoman, or German imperialism. The scars of ethnic, religious, and territorial divisions run deep.


Only with the end of the Cold War has Eastern Europe achieved an autonomous and consensual existence in the face of the hegemonies that threaten it. Atlanticism and Zbigniew Brzezinski's model, with its concept of a "lock on the Heartland," became the United States' strategy to contain Russia. This lock was built on NATO and the US military presence in Europe. The results of the US-Russia summit in Alaska suggest that Donald Trump, playing the role of Russian Doll, has called into question Russia's isolation. Trump's questioning of NATO funding and his ambiguity regarding Western collective defense were shattering the lock that keeps Eastern Europe secure; now, after the meeting with Vladimir Putin, the failure of Atlanticism can be taken for granted. The Russian bear is on the loose and can advance wherever it wants.


This has direct consequences. The Intermarium countries, which depend on North American support to resist Russian pressure, feel vulnerable. Trump's empathy toward Russia could encourage Vladimir Putin to act more boldly, knowing that the guarantor of regional security might not intervene. The risk is not only an invasion of other Eastern European countries, but also an intensification of Russia's "hybrid warfare" (cyberattacks, disinformation) to destabilize its neighbors. The lack of internal cohesion in the Intermarium, combined with a less engaged United States, creates the perfect breeding ground for a new round of conflicts.


In this context, the old wounds of Eastern Europe could reopen. The theses of thinkers like Vivianne Forrester, although controversial, demonstrate how geopolitical ideas, even the most speculative, can ignite the space into an inferno, as happened with the fires of antisemitism and other forms of exclusionary nationalism.

Monday, March 03, 2025

The Intermarium and the European Wars

 The Intermarium and the European Wars

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero




Although the narrative of Western civilization indicates that it enjoys stability and control over the world, it is also true that it presents cleavages and conditions of confrontation that have ended up generating chaos. Modernity has not been an easy conquest for the West either; on the contrary, the origin of the First and Second World Wars lies in the imperialism that ensnares most of the European countries. The conflicts that derive from this ancient practice characterize the testimony of pain and resentment that feeds history. An example of this is the fracture between Europe and Eurasia as a trigger for serious conflicts that continue to take the lives of millions of human beings. In this context, one of the aspects of European imperialism that fuels the civilizing conflict lies in the attempt of Catholic nationalism to impose itself against the Slavic and Baltic elements of European multiculturalism.


The scenario of the Russo-Ukrainian war seems to give validity to the main meaning of Tolstoy's War and Peace; the rejection and confrontation towards Russia also seem inexhaustible. But, even though Europe has justified reasons to oppose Russia, the question of the possibility of a more plural integration continues to arise. Old mistrust has prevented the opening between civilizations, as well as the development and participation of Russia in the West. The destruction of the Tsarist Empire was followed by European subordination to the United States during the Cold War; the Americans even dispensed Nazism, which deserved all the vengeance of the communist reds. Things continue as they were then, but with one constant: Russia wins wars. Perhaps in the most unfair way and with the greatest possible sacrifice; nevertheless, it is necessary to assimilate that Russia will not be destroyed and that Zbgniew Brzezinski's geopolitical strategy has failed. All, however, must follow the path of America in terms of security to avoid economic chaos.


Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and the Catholic Church have all been willing to build a complicated geopolitical leadership against a powerful figure like Russia; there are no other options. The federalism and economic opening of the Intermarium proposed by Jonathan Levy suggest a model that can include Russia. It is not too late; the heroic defence developed by Ukraine also demonstrated Russia's limits. The inclusion of Eurasia is a necessity for the West.

Monday, February 17, 2025

Intermarium and Ukraine against the emerging right

 Intermarium and Ukraine against the emerging right

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero 




The way in which the peace negotiations are creating a scenario favourable to Russia and detrimental to Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine, marks a change of era and aggravates the crisis of liberal democracy in the world. It is not necessary to specifically point out who says what in relation to Ukraine and NATO, but the truth is that the United States government headed by Republican Donald Trump is including Russia in the Western sphere to the detriment of Europe. How much difference is there compared to the nineties of the last century? The song “God Old Boys” seems to replace the “Winds of change” of that time. Russia can be a hope for the West if Europe embraces the alternative radical right.

Trump, Vance or Rubio seem to justify Vladimir Putin's competitive authoritarianism against the liberal excesses of Western democracy, the fear of the Americans regarding China seems more than real and, therefore, the need for geopolitical regrouping with Russia becomes indispensable, even if it is with the minimum common denominators.

Ukraine is being excluded from the peace process and, apparently, will be fragmented to contain Russian nationalism. The geopolitical advances against Russia led by the American Democratic Party and the Zbigniew Brzezinski model have been contrasted by the Chinese reality; they were not a mistake but something worse.

The right wing is expanding and has, increasingly, greater resources and positions, NATO and the European capitalist countries are vulnerable to the nationalist state capitalism promoted by Russia and the United States. The discourse of liberal democratic globalization has been cancelled and now other globalizations are being seen, perhaps more regional where conservative personalist leaders are receiving the main electoral support.

The countries that intended to marginalize Russia under the geopolitical scheme of the Intermarium or the Three Seas Initiative, have found themselves in adverse scenarios where globalist neoliberalism seems to be the true Chinese conspiracy.

The West will have to subordinate itself to Russia and adopt competitive conservatism in order to find the means to resist the economic and geopolitical onslaught of the Asian giant. In the end, it is the civilisational war that has been the hidden element of any geopolitical essence.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Jean Marie Le Pen and right-wing militancy

 Jean Marie Le Pen and right-wing militancy

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero



France has been the cradle of multiple right-wing movements, its historical role in Catholic nationalism and European imperialism has marked extreme and moderate political projects in this regard. Le Pen's death shows the trajectory of a militant, abrupt and politically incorrect right that has functioned as a receptacle for electoral tendencies contrary to traditional political parties and Macronism; however, the trajectory of the French right surpasses the National Front.

Although the Le Pens have accessed the runoff for the presidency of the republic on a couple of occasions, this has not put the French political order at risk, in fact, it can be said, this militant right has served as a halter for the neoliberal vision to become hegemonic. There are other important right-wing parties in France, not as combative - electorally speaking - as the National Front has been, but with a significant historical background that, in tandem, contribute to maintaining a balance between conservative and oligarchic political tendencies so that the 5th Republic can be sustained.

The history of the French right goes beyond the antagonism against the revolution that meant for the Gallic country and Europe, the transition from the old to the new regime, the departure from feudalism and the commitment to modern and secular republics. For now, it is worth highlighting the links between Joseph Pilsudski and Charles de Gaulle to explain links that go beyond military relations and involve the anti-communism that linked different fascisms. France, like other European countries, welcomed different actors in conflict with the Soviet Union and developed spaces of understanding for multiple international right-wing parties.

French personalism and Prometheanism are linked to the Intermarium geopolitical project that rejects the Soviet Union under Catholic schemes that confront Freemasonry, Judaism and Communism. This was the cultural environment that structured the personality of Jean Marie Le Pen, his political organization and offspring. Until now, the National Front continues to deny those elements that Catholic nationalism and secret societies inspired; even, that ended up being exported to other Latin countries such as Latin America.

The National Front has fulfilled its objective of being useful to conservatism, although it is true that its electoral importance does not allow it to reach significant positions of power, it has complicated the advance of the socialists and, above all, it makes specific criticisms of multiculturalism. The French right is more than latent, although it has not reached power. The crisis of the 5th Republic can open the game for extremists to take dominant positions and their arrival in the Second Round consolidates Jean Marie Le Pen's desire.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Xochitl Gálvez and Intermarium

 Xóchitl Gálvez and Intermarium

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero



Foreign contacts are significantly harming his campaign because it harms the internal possibilities of his political work and repeats the mistakes of a pro-American, conservative and oligarchic right.


The Frente Amplio candidate will complete a stage abroad of her political promotion to the presidency of Mexico. Xóchitl's visit to the United States, Spain and the Vatican; It is linked to the devices of anti-communism and anti-Russianism that constituted the North American imperialist geopolitics of the Cold War.


The Frente Amplio has discovered its links with US intelligence and White House financing ready to avert any communist and Russian intervention in Latin America.


However, in the face of the current crisis of neoliberal democracy and globalization, what sense does it make to bet on a strategy that has been emptied of content?


Xóchitl Gálvez has all the social and personal profile to compete against the populist narrative of the Fourth Transformation and Andrés Manuel López Obrador.


Foreign contacts are significantly harming her campaign because they undermine the internal possibilities of her political work and repeat the mistakes of a pro-American, conservative and oligarchic right.


It may be understandable that the Frente Amplio seeks the support of the “Deep State” to maintain the imperialist hegemony of the United States; But, in the face of the crisis of globalization and the emergence of nationalism, insisting on the protection of neoliberals and globalists results in fueling contradictions that will mean a considerable decrease in their electoral support.


After the global crisis of Covid-19 and the 2030 Agenda, who wants the United States to remain the global superpower? Even Donald Trump seeks a better understanding of the United States with China and Russia.


Republicans are rethinking the geopolitics of the Cold War because they understand that Western civilization must regenerate its values and find new paths in understanding with the world.


Xóchitl Gálvez's visits abroad harm his political campaign, contradict everything he intends to build in Mexico and bring to light the true interests of the inner circle of FAM XX.


Neoliberalism has failed miserably for everyone, a new stage in world history is approaching that forces us to rethink many things.


Mexico and the United States cannot continue on the traditional course of their relationship without noticing the serious changes in the world.


For almost seventy years, the anti-communism and capitalism of the Intermarium were determining factors in the definition of the Mexican president; but, that has failed.


Mexico's independence regains meaning in a moment of orphanhood in the face of North America.


If Donald Trump wins in the next US elections, neither FAM XX nor Morena will be considered allies by an extremist conservative who will promote more than radical changes for Mexico.


Trump is the real danger for the country and that forces us to look for new geopolitical relationships and protect Mexicanness from a terrifying time that is coming.

Tuesday, October 03, 2023

The student massacre in Mexico

 The student massacre in Mexico

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero




Mexican anti-communism is particularly reflected in the student repressions and the extermination of revolutionary guerrilla groups in the sixties and seventies of the last century, although it prevails against some symbolic rural guerrillas such as the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. The student massacres were oriented by the fight against communism, the fight against the Soviets was financed by the United States in satellite governments such as the PRI regime. However, it is necessary not to lose sight of the climate of opinion and culture determined by actors such as the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) where the membership of various actors in the Mexican political system is recognized. The WACL now persists in organizations such as the World League for Freedom and Democracy or the Conservative Political Action Conference, and maintains Nazi rhetoric coming from Eastern Europe. The religious and neoliberal right flows as if the Soviet Union were everywhere.


Within the multiple hypotheses that articulate what happened in the Tlatelolco Massacre, some configure the intervention against the presidential succession, or the insertion of a ruler more than linked to the geopolitics of the United States. The truth is that, despite the radical distinction between the six-year terms of Díaz Ordaz and Echeverría, both characters were affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and were unceremoniously subject to what the White House imposed in Mexico. From a distance, both actors supported Washington.


How much does US-led anti-communism persist in our country? What are the true possibilities of geopolitical sovereignty of the Mexican Republic?


Antonio Velasco Piña interpreted the tragedy as a sacrifice that motivated the spiritual awakening of Mexicans; Probably the students of '68 constitute another grain of sand in the search for national freedom. The student massacre can also be seen as an indispensable sacrifice to stop the arbitrariness of the Aztec chief called the United States who, like his Nazi friends, never tires of asking for blood.

Friday, September 29, 2023

Intermarium. Hitler won the war

 Intermarium. Hitler won the war

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero





How can we deny that the world has become a strange space for the development of reason? Or, perhaps, it has always been like this. Walter Graziano developed a work to understand American imperialism as a trigger for economic crises and colonialism. According to the author, the North American messianic doctrine is developed in a way that is more than closely related to Nazism. Over time this has been confirmed in various ways.

During 2021, teachers Patricia Campos, Samuel Schmidt and the writer; We managed to share with Mexican society the characteristics of the Intermarium Project developed in Poland and its importance for the Cold War. The work entitled: “Catholic Nationalism, geopolitics and anti-communism. The impact on Mexico”, under the Soriano Editores seal. Our political system was forced to establish itself as a moderate anti-communist regime where the Official Party and the Catholic Church structured the political class at the service of the United States.

The scandal corresponding to Canada for the exhibition of covert Nazism constitutes further proof of the extension of the Intermarium in other countries, of the rescue of Nazis and the inclusion in the political system of Ariosophical followers in the form of anti-communists, liberals or pro-Yankee. Above all, it shows the brevity and short effectiveness of memory. For this reason, the bitter teacher History makes her appearance so that humanity becomes aware of its crimes.

Yaroslav Hunka was a Ukrainian Nazi nationalist who took refuge in American anti-communism for decades to fight against the USSR during the Cold War. According to research by Thierry Meyssan, people like Hunka was to close a Yaroslav Stetsko, leader of the Intermarium, and a militant close to the Ukrainian extremist organizations that collaborated with Adolf Hitler. Ukrainian nationalism remains as it was then, at the service of Nazism to put an end to Russia; but, now, the IV Reich is meant in the American Union. After the implosion of the Soviet pole, the restoration of Eastern Europe allowed him to develop his activism as a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the new missionaryism of the World Anti-Communist League. During the last years he promoted economic liberalism and the modernization of Ukraine; but also the hatred of Russia that the former Slavic, Baltic and Caucasian nationalists have retained in a deep-rooted form.

Eastern Europe is the territory of the greatest Western indolence, the true hell on earth where all resentments have been able to converge. And the space from which no one has learned anything.

Canada and the Western world applauded a Nazi expert. The situation shows the plot of falsehoods in the Russian-Ukrainian war: the IV Reich continues in its desire to persist, the Barbarossa operation and fulfill the dream of Alfred Rosenberg.

Jean Francois Ravel believed that anti-Americanism was the characteristic of human irresponsibility, but what about anti-Russianism?

The way in which the world has received notification of what happened in Canada is an example of the confusion that Western democracy is experiencing, liberal culture applauds Nazism and nothing happens.

However, the appearance of Nazism in Canada is not a coincidence, it was all part of a geopolitical strategy where most of the countries that commanded the Allied Side ended up recruiting the Nazis and blindly joining the Anti Comintern.

What happened in Canada exposes the interests of NATO and the Yankee Empire. However, it also generates enormous damage – perhaps the greatest – to capitalist liberal democracy. The history and geopolitics of realism provide the bitterest drinks. The West has promoted Nazism in the most open way in the second half of the 20th century and on the threshold of the present century the foundations of the Ariosophical Millennium that Mein Kampf imagined are about to be finalized.

Democracy and capitalism are the masquerade of the Fourth Reich and it seems that no one can stop them. Mexico is not far behind in the Nazi support that has been established from North America: drug trafficking and emigration are the channels through which the empire is fed; But, in addition, there is also a plethora of politicians like those who brought Vicente Fox to power and now promote Xóchitl Gálvez, who would also gladly applaud characters like Yaroslav Hunka.

Friday, November 18, 2022

Anti-communism, Catholic nationalism and geopolitics. The impact on Mexico. Book Review

 Anti-communism, Catholic nationalism and geopolitics. The impact on Mexico.

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero, Xóchitl Patricia Campos López, Samuel Schmidt, editorial:

Montiel and Soriano Publishers, 2021




 


BOOK REVIEW

By Arely Lucas Abundio, Brayan Martínez Martínez and Luis Ángel Isidro Bonilla, students of the Bachelor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla.


The book is a reflection on anti-communism as a geopolitical factor, and analyzes it in three periods: prior to the Second World War, during the cold war and in the post-communism period.


As the pages of this political analysis are turned, several questions appear: how do these ideologies affect Mexico? Did anti-communism trigger the 1968 student massacre? Is López Obrador a communist? What defines us as political scientists?


Reading this research allows us to understand the evolution of an ideology and myth that provided Mexicans with a false vision of the world and a partial view of history; anti-communism legitimized authoritarian actions by political, economic and social leaders who claimed to protect the homeland at any cost.


The historical analysis led the authors to find in Poland's Catholic nationalism a fundamental factor for the development of global anti-communism. They recover the trajectory of intransigent integral Catholic political thought, -for example, of Vladimir Ledochowski- that places the Freemasons, Jews and Russians as enemies, although after the October revolution anti-communism is added, which irradiates the anti-Bolshevik experience towards Europe. from the East and that, hand in hand with the Vatican, reaches Latin America and Mexico.


The Intermarium was a project that will allow Poland to protect its sovereignty. After the fall of the tsarist empire and the survival of the Orthodox Church, Poland was characterized by its defense of the anti-communist movement to preserve its political-religious integrity and be a future buffer against the Soviet Union and Germany.


The geopolitical interest of the Catholic Church in Poland is essential to maintain itself as a religious hegemon in Eastern Europe, highlighting the need for the Holy See to create a perfect Christian society, the City of God on earth, but at the same time showing a face radical, authoritarian and papolatra.


Anti-communism becomes a converging element of the European and Cold War wars of the last century, and out of a fervent struggle for the new world order, this process spreads everywhere under the leadership of the United States of America. America.


The Polish Intermarium project will have as its main objective to stop the spread of communism by displaying a series of narratives and actions that will unleash conservative and religious phobias towards Freemasons, Jews and communists, while at the same time being essential to explain the vision of Catholic nationalism.


Latin American countries, characterized by the great influence of Catholicism and extreme Spanish-American conservatism, adopt the US national security project governed by the Intermarium.


Mexico was one of the countries most aided by anti-communism, Catholic nationalism, Francoist influence and secret societies financed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Francoism manipulated the question of Hispanidad to turn Spanish spiritual imperialism into a quintessential conservatism that denies the virtues of liberal democracy, but fights head-on against communism. Ibero-American conservatism highlights the attachment to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and its influence in all social spheres.


The anti-communist right in Latin America has a long history, accompanying the religious and authoritarian character of the oligarchies. During World War II, its presence grew stronger and, over time, it established itself as an ally of US imperialism. The set of strategies against the USSR will mark the stage of the dirty war against the Latin American left. The thread that the text discovers between Nazi-fascism and Yankee imperialism, evidences the link between the Intermarium and North American Atlanticism.


Based on the influence of the Intermarium on the secret societies of Catholic nationalism, the book analyzes the consequences that an ideology such as anti-communism can bring to the political culture of Mexico. The conservative culture not only tries to prevent left-wing parties from reaching power and forming a government, but also influences the authoritarian patrimonialism represented by the different political groups that have reached the presidency of Mexico, cacique corporatism and the lack of solidity for a authentic liberal democratic culture.

The gap of inequality, marginalization, vulnerability and impunity is the ideal breeding ground for authoritarianism. The Intermarium is reborn in the new right-wing wave in the world, with strong Russophobia without the USSR and non-communist Russia; promoting the hegemony of the United States and the Catholic Church now in the dispute for the world order after neoliberalism and covid-19.


Communism and anti-communism caused a stir in political systems around the world. It is important to question to what extent they were struggles against imperialism and for national emancipation.


This essay explains the validity of the ideas, hatreds, contradictions and dialectics of an anti-communism that is still present in Mexico and that has a presence in many social sectors.


The anti-communist discourse in our country is socialized on a daily basis, although the Mexican Republic does not have a communist party, but the memory of 1968 and the destruction of the revolutionary guerrillas makes clear the force of Catholic nationalism in the anti-liberal political culture of our society.


Taken from: Latinoture Magazine (2022 November)

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Mexico-Poland: a far-right party Hector Alejandro Quintanar

Mexico-Poland: a far-right party

Hector Alejandro Quintanar



The World Cup in Qatar is approaching and, as Bertrand Russell recommended about soccer, it is time to think about humans and their political disputes. Within this framework, on November 22, Mexico will face Poland in the debut of both teams in the fair. Time to remember ideological links in both countries.

As he did in recent days to invite the march in defense of the INE, on July 2, 2005 Vicente Fox also invited the right-wing –both the assumed and the shameful– to take over the Angel of Independence to celebrate the day of democracy Disguised as a remembrance of the alternation in 2000, the act was an attempt to show strength in the streets, since the obradorismo had recently overwhelmed them against the authoritarianism of lawlessness, and the 2006 election was approaching. Fox's act had as a star guest the former Polish president Lech Walesa, stamp of Catholicism turned into a political project, whose presence sought to shine a stage dominated by figures from the Mexican ultra-right, such as Luis Luege or Velasco Arzac.

More than anecdotal, the event was a reminder. Researchers and journalists such as Samuel Schmidt, Diego Velázquez, Patricia Campos or Maciek Wisniewski have pointed out a crucial fact. At the beginning of the 20th century, Intermarium was a Central European geopolitical project that sought to unite countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea, with centrality in Poland, to form an ideological wall against the Russian revolution, based on one element: geopolitical anti-communism with Catholic roots. , which since the 19th century has been obsessed with an alleged Jewish-communist conspiracy to dominate the world, an obsession that masked an anti-secular and anti-enlightenment crusade.

Just 100 years ago, Pius XI (formerly nuncio to Poland) was elected Pope, an emissary of an intransigent conservatism and an admirer of the theses of the Polish Intermarium, which were also an inspiration for Mexican far-right organizations such as Los Tecos and El Yunque. Thus, Central European Catholicism – afraid that the Jews would found their State there – and the Mexican post-Cristero veins, opposed to constitutional secularism, had communicating vessels, both united by fear of the Jewish-communist conspiracy. The connections are not trivial: already in the cold war, the Vatican took up the theses of Intermarium promoting reserved groups in Latin America, which led to this intolerant inertia having a place in Mexico –as was the case in Puebla– and later found space in bread. From Warsaw to Cholula, the threat was one: the Judeo-Freemasons-Communists.

One hundred years after the accession of Pius XI; 100 years after the rise of the Intermarium, 100 years after the USSR was consolidated (and then dissolved), today in Mexico a conclave is coming: a forum in Mexico City on November 18 and 19 organized by the Political Conference de Acción Conservadora (CPAC), with exhibitions, among others, by Pinochetista Antonio Kast or Mr. Javier Milei, a madman who represents that sector of people who, unable to socialize healthily with others, disguise their antipathy as an ideology of exacerbated individualism. The axis of that forum is predictable: the reactionary counterculture against reproductive and sexual minority rights; mix anti-communism and anti-populism, and regurgitate geopolitical conspiracies, perhaps Cuban, Venezuelan or even Russian again.

Who will complete the conclave? Lech Walesa, who today, like 17 years ago, will once again be in Mexico to wash the face of reactionary groups with the prestige of his Nobel Prize, just as Vargas Llosa does, flattering Díaz Ayuso in Madrid or urging them to vote for Bolsonaro. With Walesa will be Eduardo Verástegui, a Mexican actor who became an ideologue of this post-Cold War right, in a touch of entertainment reminiscent of when Alicia Villarreal, singing, gave a better and more profound speech than Fox's in that meeting at the Angel in July from 2005.

The traces of intransigent Polish and Mexican conservatism have been connected. While in Poland that expression governs, in Mexico it lies in an opposition that is supposedly diverse but that is less and less afraid of being articulated with each other, headed by unpresentables (as was the cocktail of liberals marching with electoral delinquents to save the INE), while the right dura becomes visible as it is, as in the CPAC forum.

In 100 years much of the world has changed, but in the global party of reaction, whether Polish or Mexican, its right wingers remain anchored in the 18th century, while those who believe they are centers or brilliant forwards do not realize that they share the field with retrogrades more than they wanted. I wish the field that is being talked about here was not political, but soccer.


Taken from: 

Periódico La Jornada. 16 de Noviembre de 2022

Semanario El Reto. 17 de Noviembre de 2022 

Monday, January 31, 2022

WEST VERSUS RUSIA

West versus Russia

Diego Martin Velazquez Caballero



The situation in Ukraine appears important in recent weeks as it shows the decline of the United States and NATO in Eastern Europe. The confrontation between the American and Russian intelligence apparatuses has generated the possibility of an armed conflict that delimits the borders of the Western world. The United States and the values ​​it represents have to accept a setback in the post-covid world.

Even when it is intended to make Russia, China and the Middle East look like barbarian civilizations; The truth is that Yankee Imperialism cannot sustain the fallacies with which it has achieved economic hegemony since the end of World War II. Liberalism, democracy and human rights are not the elements that distinguish Western culture; On the contrary, they are the reasons for the anti-American obsession that, justifiably, the peoples have the right to reject at this fundamental moment in the history of humanity. The departure of the United States from Afghanistan indicates that the alleged universalization of modernity and Western values ​​is not true, the United States maintains geographical pivots and fragile geopolitical balances to remain firm in the voracious capitalism that passes over the peoples.

Ukraine and Eastern Europe have not constituted modernizing democratic transitions but the consolidation of a military wall that aims to destroy Russia, this society has the right to defend itself and protect its vital space. The United States has failed to include Russia in the Western world in a peaceful and pluralistic way, it has sought the humiliating subordination of the region to subsidize the hidden economy of Western imperialism. It is not human beings but the power of the dollar that interests the North American democratic simulation.

Historically, an infinite anti-Russian civilization predominates in Europe as a civilizing project that has sought the disappearance of Russia from the Catholic and Protestant Christian vision, this element has lasted for more than a century and is an example of the political use that is given to religion for the imperialist geopolitical ends. The West has failed and Russia will extend its regional influence because it is the right thing to do against a Europe and the United States that have been unfair to the Baltic Slavic civilization and to the rest of humanity.

The way in which Russia has been transformed in recent decades is an indication of the actions that political leaders will take against states in the future to get ahead. If the triumph of Russia is generated in Eastern Europe, a liberalization of the regions is proposed where Latin America, and Mexico in particular, can draw lessons to reduce a historical colonialism that has become a pathological symbiosis that is resulting in the promotion of Failed state.

Saturday, October 16, 2021

PAN-Vox, a strategy, not a mistake: Intermarium Model in Mexico 2024

PAN-Vox, a strategy, not a mistake: Intermarium Model in Mexico 2024



September 15, 2021

Carlos Ramirez

After the right-wing failure of the PAN in the presidency in the lukewarm conservative six-year terms of Vicente Fox Quesada and Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, the PAN is weaving a front with Coparmex, the anti-state businessmen of Claudio X. González and their functional citizen organizations and now with the far-right Spanish party Vox for 2024. In this context, the Vox visit organized by the far-right wing of the PAN was a strategic movement of the radical PAN bloc with messages to the rest of the PAN and especially to the neoliberal salinista-PAN PRI and the neoliberalized PRD in frank dialogue –according to the book by Jesús Ortega Martínez– with liberalism. In this political game, the strategic movements of President López Obrador should also be read: the Mexican embassy in Spain from Vox to the PRI governor Quirino Ordaz Coppel and some federal position to the Nayaritian PAN governor Armendariz, who arrived as a candidate of the PAN, PRD, PT and a local socialist party. Spain's diplomatic decision plays out on many fields: the PRI has always been the party idealized by the non-Marxist Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and an ally of the United We Can Party, both with a marked progressive populist tendency. Although it should not be read as an automatic movement, the fact that Vox has landed in the Mexican PAN as the ideological axis for the opposition-business-rightist alliance of 2024 is part of the context. The Spanish government would deal with a PRI ambassador - if the PRI endorses it and Madrid gives its approval a posteriori — as a representative of the uncomfortable government of López Obrador. The extreme right of the PAN with Vox comes from a historical strategic line known as Intermarium, an international anti-communist project (https://indicadorpolitico.com.mx/?p=10332) linked to the right of the Catholic Church and born in post-communist Poland to eradicate the Soviet remnants. The PAN (https://indicadorpolitico.com.mx/?p=1248) was born with the support and influence of Plutarco Elías Calles, already crushed by President Lázaro Cárdenas and his project of utopian socialism of a monopoly state. After the assault on the PAN by the northern business groups of José Angel Conchello (1972-1975, against Echeverría), Manuel J. Clouthier (1982-1988, against the expropriation of the bank) and Luis H. Alvarez (1987-1993, with the alliance with the anti-state Salinista neoliberalism), the right wing of the PAN was disappointed with the PAN's PRI of Fox and Calderón and the PAN as the revolving door for the return of the PRI to the presidency in 2012. Today the PAN appears as the articulating body of the right-wing groups that have swarmed in the PRI political regime of revolutionary nationalism: the Yunque, the WALL of Diego Fernández de Cevallos, the Tecos de Guadalajara, the Mexican Catholic Association of the church in the sixties as a pivot against the effect in Mexico of the Cuban Revolution (the novel Redil de Ovejas by Vicente Leñero portrays that time), the Association of Parents today in the PRI-PAN-PRD-Coparmex Alliance, the remnants of the nonexistent Democratic Party Me Xican as a synarchist refuge, the old Nazi formations asleep in the folds of the PAN and the American foundations financing the Mexican right. The conservative Catholic Church made an attempt to articulate the alliance with the PAN in 1984 with PAN businessmen and the pivot of the Reaganian ambassador John Gavin, but the religious reform of Salinas in its neoliberal market model deactivated the right-wing figures in Puebla. , DF and Guadalajara and the ecumenism of the Salinas Ernesto Corripio Ahumada deflated the ideological struggle, even without attacking the use of condoms and now only lukewarmly fighting against the decriminalization of abortion. In this context, the presence of Vox in the PAN was not a political error or a bad decision by some fifth-level PAN player. In fact, he has already defined the PAN's strategic line for 2024 and the Salinas PRI and the neoliberalized PRD will have no other way than to accept it because it is part of the polarizing approach of President López Obrador.

Politics for dummies: Politics is measured by denials.

Friday, September 11, 2020

The Drunkard came Drunk

The Drunkard Came Drunk (JAJ)

September 10, 2020

Diego Martin Velázquez Caballero






https://www.semanarioelreto.com/single-post/2020/09/10/Lleg%C3%B3-Borracho-el-Borracho

The slander campaign against former President Felipe Calderón is unnecessary, it is base and shows the felony of the commitments that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reached with the United States and the Mexican extreme right. Since Manuel Ávila Camacho, the informants and moles are the same primitive joints that boast as members of the secret societies reserved for Catholic nationalism and of which guys like Manuel Espino are worthy representatives. Andrés Manuel López Obrador cannot question Felipe Calderón because he is working with them: uncompromising integral Catholicism found a place in MORENA and at the highest levels of public administration. Some state governments, such as the case of Puebla, are controlled to the bone by the usual pseudonazis: morons, opportunists and moralists.


The attack on Felipe Calderón comes from the extreme right that has always controlled the Mexican State. The one that put itself at the service of the United States and then brought Mexico to its knees in front of the American Union. Is Calderón held responsible for being submissive to the Pentagon and the Vatican? Can AMLO govern in another way? The alleged alcoholism is a complete set. In a country with a highly significant culture of alcoholism, you cannot move land and sea so that the people pay tribute to the holy men of the canteens and, then, take a political figure to hell for the same circumstances. This is tartuism, you are or you are not. Tomás Garrido Canabal shot drunkards the same as Iglesias dynamited.


AMLO uses the worst rhetoric to govern and tomorrow will be the banquet of the Catholic-conservative nationalists who now claim to be on his side. The currency of these groups is harassment and confidential extortion, blackmail. By including them in your government, they have taken more information from you than you imagine and that will be used appropriately. You just have to wait for the death of the king for the new king to live and the courtesans make use of the data that they palatially obtained to find accommodation.


The folly of summoning the reference and discretion of Mario Bergoglio to gain legitimacy is a sample of the populist fallacy everywhere. Every Christian who deigns to be respected has more references than the Popes. Insisting on mixing Catholicism and politics only shows the degree of vassalage and slavery that is generated in the Latin American, Latin and Central European world. For purposes of religious pluralism, the consideration of making constant biblical references as well as the messages of Mario Bergoglio does not do a favor to Mexican democracy. What are there not other authors, even Christians, to point out the importance of a value or express the legitimacy of an action? Can't you cite an academic or, if the religious issue is important, the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist or vegan minister? The debate over the president's religious messages is an unnecessary assault on liberal secular culture. During the XIX and XX centuries, the attacks on the Mexican State have been gigantic by the high Catholic clergy.


Illiberal democracy is one of the consequences of Christian democracy. This is the anthropological limit of our political evolution. As in post-war Italy, there are only three Jesuit options: white, black, and red. Enrique Krauze when defining the PAN, considered that half of the party is Yunque, and the other half is also Catholic but is divided into aspirationists,liberals, civilists and humanists. This is all of Mexico. The overcoming of these anthropological limits is impossible to break if the historical rupture is Porfirio Muñoz Ledo.


Christian democracy walks on the edge of the fascist razor. Even though some of their governments are tolerant of sexual, cultural, racial and religious pluralisms, the truth is that they cannot resist the temptation to implement public policies and laws with a Christian orientation, particularly that of intransigent integral Catholicism.


The political parties that assume the banner of Christian democracy, inevitably admit clericalism and clerical tutelage in the conformation of their governments as well as in their international relationship with the Holy See. The cases of Latin America and Eastern Europe constitute the largest spaces for Christian democracy. Mainly due to the lack of a liberal culture in the economic, political and social sense. While in other societies –especially of Protestant Christian orientation, the civic culture with respect to secularization and secularism does not present a major conflict, in Central European Latin American and Catholic societies, the absence of clericalism in the governmental dimension, and of the entire social structure, is considered a tragedy.


For the Christian Democrats of Catholic descent, conservative nationalist rhetoric and narrative remains of great value. In the aforementioned regions, even leftist governments must reconcile their progressive ideas with the values ​​and guidelines of Roman Catholicism. MORENA and AMLO are doing it. López Obrador will remain on the lines of Ávila Camacho, Echeverría, Salinas, Fox and Calderón.


Christian democracy, more than a phenomenon of political ideology, constitutes a geopolitical strategy to form right-wing governments, political parties that defend its doctrine and create the perfect Christian societies where Catholic believers are the majority.


In Catholic societies with little liberal development, factionalism and succession within the Catholic Church are more important than within the political system itself. This element is worth highlighting because it complies with Max Weber's interpretive references regarding the development between Catholics and Protestants; but it also makes it possible to highlight the consequences of the lack of a civic culture and liberal political awareness.


Latin America and Eastern Europe, more and more, have authoritarian, confessional, corrupt governments that fall into populism - simply to keep the political oligarchy united, but around Catholic and Christian religious groups.


As long as the nations with significant Catholic groups do not generate religious revolutions that generate ultra-liberalism of beliefs, as well as pacts of religion and tolerance, the necessary social differentiation for the free structuring of the political, economic and social fields will be inhibited. The Catholic-oriented Christian democracy remains in the organic and corporate society of the Middle Ages


The geopolitical strategy that Catholic nationalism promoted in Eastern Europe to confront communism and acquire territories for the dominion of the Catholic Church was successful in the dismantling of the USSR. However, in almost thirty years time, the region has not developed consolidated or mature democracies and, despite the regret of some analysts who exaggerate the virtues of Christian democracy, Mittleuropa is a pro-fascist region close to the far-right regimes in the early days of the twentieth century.


For several years, the text of Ilan Bizberg and Marcyn Fribes: Transitions to democracy. Lessons for Mexico, edited by Cal y Arena, was put to the consideration of the PAN groups, particularly El Yunque, as one of the models to guide the Mexican political transition. In the words of Frido Arias Kung, an attempt was made to bring the figure of Vicente Fox closer to Lech Walesa so that the condition of Catholic nationalism would serve as an impetus for regime change and historical rupture as in the experience of Eastern Europe. However, Mexico is not Poland and Hispanic Catholicism, as conservative as it pretends to be, does not come close to Polish Catholicism. It tries to imitate anti-Semitism and anti-communism, but the distance from the European experience and the Hispanic condition, designed a corrupt and corrupting model that little imitates the Polish historical dynamics.


There are many differences between the Polish and Hispanic experience. While Poland has a civil war with its Slavic first cousins ​​- the Russians, in the Hispanic case, despite the fact that the recovery of the territories dominated by Islam took eight centuries, a process of interculturality was generated in the South of Spain that until the date does not want to be recognized by Spaniards who think they are direct descendants of Adolfo Hitler, even though they were born in Cholula (Puebla). Sefarad generated a strange multiculturalism that leads to distinguish the region of Europe and Christianity itself. Latin America is a great Sepharad. Transreligious Multicultural Populations. Perhaps these characteristics, strange elements, are what have inhibited the Polish experience.


Poland was generating a historical conflict with Russia, with all the racial, cultural and religious similarities. The Soviet communist rule, in an unjustified and totalitarian way, widened the gap and was a significant element in increasing the reserves that the region keeps against Russia.


The Spanish democratic transition was a space for negotiation and coexistence between the republican and monarchist factions that implemented the traditional Canovism of the ineffective Spanish ruling house. Although there is talk of national reconciliation and oblivion, the truth is that there is a historical space where, in a nicdemic way, the reformist and moderate sectors have been working.


The transition to democracy in Poland presents different characteristics. The Catholic Church had been establishing itself as the banner of national identity against Russian communism. Although it had its spaces for negotiation with the USSR, there was no attempt on the part of the Catholics to agree with the communists. In Poland there is a process of restructuring from the authentic civil society that fought for democracy, but which, over time, has resulted in the formation of far-right governments. By way of justification, Catholic nationalism remains in force as a defense mechanism against Russia, which, now, under the rule of Vladimir Putin, seeks to regain the geopolitical hegemony that characterized Russia during the Tsarist and Communist years.


Catholic Latin America does not have an enemy like Russia near here, if the United States opened its borders everyone would want to get involved. That is why Intermarium is a failed strategy of the Latin American right. The collaboration of Frido Arias Kung with the PAN and the democratic Christian identity movement of America, thus suggests it.

Populism, the political experience of Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela, are not at all compared to the USSR, China or North Korea, with everything and the shouting that the extreme right makes from Miami and Argentina. Left-wing governments in Latin America are innocuous against the imperialism of the Holy See and the United States. For the historian Loris Zanatta and the comparative Bertrand Badie, we are either conservative (right) or progressive (left) Catholic populists.


The Falklands War between Argentina and England is more important in regional identity than the Dirty War that was carried out against leftist or openly communist groups that were few, disorganized and without any external element of support. Cuba itself has experienced this orphanhood since the missile crisis in 1961. In the case of Mexico, at this point, only Samuel Huntington and George Friedman think of predicting a war between Mexico and the United States. Mexican integration into the United States is so obvious that, in addition to adopting Mickey Mouse's ears, the people would act as Panamanian society did in the invasion of that country to overthrow Manuel Noriega, a former collaborator of the CIA. Only the Argentines have used this rhetoric to confront the English.


The Intermarium in Latin America has served so that Catholic nationalists satisfy their desire to kill, viciously murdering communists, indigenous people, feminists, workers and, above all, students. And to co-govern with the communist snitches. The pact with the PRI organized crime has been made since the time of Manuel Ávila Camacho.


The economic, political and social indicators of Eastern Europe are not due to Christian democracy but to the geopolitical possibility of constituting itself as a strategy of Western culture against Russia and the Arab world.


Poland is characterized from Russia as the "Trojan Donkey" and, during the 20th century, the consequences of her behavior have not made her understand.


In the case of Mexico, the lesson from Eastern Europe should be: find an enemy as great as Russia, China or Islam so that North America and the Holy See grant their support to structural improvement.


While that happens, it only remains to maintain the behavior of the Latino or Hispanic world, fighting among themselves: the north against the south, the colorist, racist and social struggle of the castes, the struggle of a Hispanic Creole oligarchy against popular aspirationist groups, competition for corruption, emigration of marginalized groups to North America, etc., so that our societies have minimal income.


To put it more clearly, Spain, Portugal and Italy; they remain our anthropological limits. The Italian and Iberian peninsula, as well as Eastern Europe, are models of illiberal, Catholic, ineffective, blocked, Christian democracies close to fascism when conditions require it, liberal as far as the bishops and the social structure allow. Christian democracy is antagonistic to liberal democracies.


In Mexico, as in Spain, a nicodemic, Canoist, turncoat transition has taken place, where the fighting groups have become accustomed to agreeing to transas, to migrate and to change their party jacket at the most opportune moment. The only verb that knows how to conjugate Mexican politics, is the one that Martín Luis Guzmán puts in the mouth of Olivier Fernández, avatar of Jorge Prieto Laurens (Catholic Nationalist, anti-communist, collaborator of the CIA, founder of the Tecos y Yunque) is backgammon, betray, get up early. And the man who gets up early, you know who he is.


 (JAJ) José Alfredo Jiménez. Mexican singer-songwriter from Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato


Thursday, November 21, 2019

Intermarium, Imperialism and Coup in Latin America

Intermarium, Imperialism and Coup in Latin America
November 21, 2019

Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero






https://www.semanarioelreto.com/single-post/2019/11/21/Intermarium-Imperialismo-y-Golpismo-en-Am%C3%A9rica-Latina
A few months ago, the Albores Magazine of the UAQ (2018 N.3) published a collective article on North American geopolitics during the Cold War era https://www.comecso.com/publicaciones/revista-albores-num-3. Weeks later, the Polish intellectual Maciek Wisniewski (La Jornada, 9/8/2019), expressed his surprise that the Latin American ultra right would take notes of an old and local project as, at the beginning of the 20th century, Josef Pilsudski was thinking . The historical analysis of Western intelligence strategies shows that the one who really resumed said anti-communist project and transferred it in principle to the Nazis and then to the Americans was the Catholic Church. The tripod faced the USSR and won in the Cold War, it is currently held as the triangle of Western control in the world.

Although the current geopolitics considers that the coordinates of the international analysis can no longer be those of the postwar period, the truth is that the protagonists of that moment are still the central states in the new world order. Likewise, the dementia of the myth of a Judeo Masonic Communist Conspiracy is the rhetoric of Latin American rights to propose an anti-Semitism without Jews (Claudio Lomnitz), capable of developing a machinery of death, disappearance and extermination against those who oppose the Holy Alliance : Christianity, Nazis and North America.

What happened in Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador and Bolivia show the strength of the theory and practice of Intermarium in Latin America. The Christian fundamentalism of the Catholic, Protestant and evangelical nationalists is nourished by an extremely violent and murderous anti-communist rage. Even though the Latin American left frequently took the option of guerrillas to generate the transformations that inspired their utopias, when it comes to hate, violence and authoritarianism, the right provides the strongest examples.

Medieval Christian thought, more than fascism, influences the action of rights and qualifies as universal enemies those who postulate progressive, social or nationalist ideas. The Catholic Church achieved the survival of the Roman Empire thanks to the persecution and extermination of communities reluctant to political religion. In this sense, for two thousand years the axis has been anti-Semitism or anti-Judaism; The method of destruction against the Jews is employed against the enemies of Christianity. Adolfo Hitler and his collaborators implemented it at the time, later, North America directs it.

The striking behavior of the Latin American right recalls the Cesaropapist expansionism. These Crusade or Holy War postulates have been used by American Imperialism to lead these warrior monks and create a highly favorable context; Thus, anticommunism has served to make Latin America the backyard of the Anglo-Saxon and Christian living space

The most forceful events for Latin America are closely linked to activities of the North American Intelligence Office. Although public opinion and a good part of the American political class support the United States to do what is necessary to amend the Hispanic chaos, the truth is that, paradoxically, disorder in adolescent republics is most convenient to Anglo-Saxon imperialism.

The historical sequence of foreign interventions, coups, indigenous extermination, rural communities, student and revolutionary communities have a common denominator: the CIA. The belligerence and terrorism of the rightist groups are financed by North America and the Holy See, the revolutionary leftist groups, rather than communist, have been anti-American nationalist groups.

Historical research has found the intersection of American Intelligence to generate the balances of power that suit their interests. Thanks to the Catholic national right, Latin America is chaos and is kidnapped by factual powers that constitute the true face of Western fundamentalism: the clerical Borgias. The enemies of Latin American modernity are the Ayatollahs of the faith who have no respect for life, the common good and marginalized social groups. They are still in the task of consolidating the Counter Reformation; rebuild the Carolingian Empire or the Holy Roman Empire.

The conflict results in the generation of Failed States that are ending up affecting North America. Latin American instability is equal to disproportionate emigration, drug trafficking and organized crime. The Failed States are zombie nations that are getting closer to North America. The southern United States can now be considered Hispanicized.

The American geopolitics have long warned, the risks for the Yankee Empire to solve the political behaviors of the Latin American right. But the invisible American government insists on controlling the hemisphere under agreements with the clerofascist groups in the region. The relationship of the United States with ultra-Christian groups is similar to that of Caligula and his horse. With them bread be eaten.

Faced with a context of exclusion, poverty, discrimination, cacicazgos and orphanhood, only emigration, informality and drug trafficking represent real options for the poorest population, which is the majority, to find a possibility to change their conditions. Both ways, the United States is the point of arrival.

In the face of the Latin American chaos managed by the rights, the United States will not be able to face the tandem of Latin American structural and historical problems and demands. More than a Hispanic challenge, the situation can become a final challenge.

The coup in Bolivia, the repression of social movements, enforced disappearances, the inhibition of social policies and the anti-communist polarization place us in that procedural democracies in the region must wear Mickey Mouse's ears and the crucifix. The geniuses of our political science are not even able to propose parliamentarism as a mediator, adducing cultural traditions. The Latin American lefts are warned, in that way, of the cost involved in the confrontation with the United States and the Cesaropapist rights. The 4T in Mexico will turn a Disneyland scenario to prevent the reactionaries from putting on Rambo's costume, there is the case of Pedro Salmerón and San Eugenio Garza Sada.

Latin America cannot protect itself from North America, the United States only respects countries that possess nuclear weapons; However, given the medieval time of our context, the Caudillo Bolívar of Gabriel García Márquez will remain lost in his labyrinth and will only find comfort in the Quijote de la Mancha.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Intermarium


https://www.jornada.com.mx/2019/08/09/opinion/016a2pol



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urioso cómo algunas ideas se niegan a morir. Cómo resurgen, mutan, cambian de piel y cobran nuevas vidas.
Aún más curioso cómo de repente aparecen, resuenan y dejan huella en contextos y lugares menos esperados.
Veamos por ejemplo el curioso –me sigo repitiendo por falta de mejor palabra− caso de Intermarium, una vieja idea geopolítica polaca que dada cierta faceta anticomunista/conservadora/católica inspiró –aunque debo admitir de modo sorprendente− a la ultraderecha mexicana (El Yunque) en el combate al comunismo, sus cruzadas anti-izquierdistas y su modelo del nacionalismo católico (véase: Samuel Schmidt Nedvedovich, Diego Martín Velázquez Caballero, Xóchitl Patricia Campos López, Intermarium: la estrategia anticomunista católica en el México del siglo XX, en: Albores, jul-dic 2018).
Todo incluso aún más sorprendente –me sigo repitiendo…− dado que Intermarium (bit.ly/2MMe8wT) fue mucho más que anticomunismo y lo católico en él era muy ambiguo.
Mię dzymorze −Entre Mares en polaco, latinizado como Intermarium− fue idea de una federación centroeuropea acuñada a principios del siglo XX por Józef Piłsudski (1867-1935), el líder nacional polaco, cuyas raíces se remontaban al siglo XVI y al legado multicultural de la Mancomunidad Polaco-Lituana y dinastía de los Jagiellon que gobernaba una amplia región entre tres mares: Adriático, Báltico y Negro (bit.ly/2ZFQmX2).
En sus ojos, tal federación –compuesta de Polonia, Lituania, Letonia, Estonia, Bielorrusia, Ucrania, Checoslovaquia, Hungría, Rumania, Yugoslavia y Finlandia− era un necesario contrapeso al imperialismo alemán y ruso y sus respectivos afanes colonialistas (Mitteleuropa). Garantizaría a Polonia también estatus de cierta potencia regional (véase: P. Okulewicz, Koncepcja ‘mię dzymorza’ w myś li i praktyce politycznej obozu J. Piłsudskiego w latach 1918-1926, Poznań 2001).
No obstante las complicadas relaciones de Polonia con Lituania y Ucrania –legado a su vez del colonialismo polaco−, una serie de internos conflictos territoriales –legado de la Primera Guerra Mundial (Versalles 1919/Trianion 1920)− falta de lazos económicos, las excesivas ambiciones polacas, la resistencia alemana y rusa, indiferencia del resto de Europa y finalmente los hechos –la Guerra Polaco-Bolchevique (1920)−, cancelaron toda la idea (posteriormente Polonia trataba de reanimarla en otros formatos).
En plano ideológico Intermariumiba acompañado de prometeismootra idea de Piłsudski de ir rompiendo a Rusia por costuras nacionales/étnicas (bit.ly/33hV0wx). El blanco final de esta elaborada –y poco exitosa− campaña nacionalista en la región fue la URSS, pero la estrategia nació todavía a fin de desmembrar al imperio de los tsaresen tiempos en que Piłsudski aún era un socialista (PPS), o sea, un zurdo, aunque de estos con deviaciones nacionalistas como lo denunciaba la propia R. Luxemburgo (SDKPiL).
Así que si de algo Intermarium es un ejemplo, no es de una exitosa estrategia anticomunista −ni de defensa de catolicismo−, sino de la histórica incapacidad de países centroeuropeos a formar un alternativo bloque regional y las falacias de buscarlo (pero bueno…).
Es aquí donde varios analistas sonaron alarma cuando hace tres años el ultraderechista gobierno polaco de Ley y Justicia (PiS) lanzó Iniciativa Tres Mares (Trójmorze) modelada en Intermarium que abarca a Polonia y a otros 11 países de la UE ubicados entre el Adriático, Báltico y el mar Negro (bit.ly/2TcMA53).
Si bien según PiS su objetivo es “construir alianza defensiva, fortalecer lazos comerciales y crear una ‘nueva identidad regional dentro de la UE’”, muchos lo vieron como proyecto competitivo a ésta y a la cooperación en materia de seguridad con Berlín. En ojos de T. Snyder –reconocido historiador de Europa Central y de periodo de entreguerras− Tres Mares, efectivamente divide a Europa y fortalece geopolíticamente sólo a Kremlin (bit.ly/2M6tOvc).
Aunque hoy el énfasis ideológico en la defensa de los valores católicoses clara −he aquí donde se perfila la oposición a Bruselas que según Varsovia o Budapest es promiscua culturalmente y permisivista hacia los refugiados− si nos remontamos a los 20/30 nada otro podría ser más equivocado. Piłsudski era contrario a la Iglesia, igual que su campo político, Sanacja; su principal rival en la derecha, Endecja por otro lado efectivamente era muy católico.
Una de curiosas –me vuelvo a repetir…− operaciones de PiS en los pasados años es casar estos dos irreconciliables campos y catolicizar a Piłsudski (véase: L. Koczanowicz, “ The polish case”, en: New Left Review 102, nov-dic 2016), algo que se ve reflejado también en su restreno de Intermarium.
El resultado del distanciamiento de Bruselas y Berlín para Polonia es mayor acercamiento con Washington, tanto en plano ideológico, como en materia de seguridad: PiS ya expresó un profundo deseo de tener una base estadunidense (Fort Trump) e incluso pagar por ella.
En vez de anticomunismo hoy el terreno común para la derecha es la xenofobia y el antimigrantismo. Intermarium en práctica –gracias a las ultrarrestrictivas políticas de la mayoría de sus gobiernos− es una zona libre de refugiados. Trump y la ultraderecha mexicana −que siempre parece estar tomando notas, aunque sea con la mano izquierda...− han de estar muriéndose de envidia.
* Periodista polaco