Expectations should be tempered with respect to what CELAC will achieve in the coming future, but nobody should think that it won’t achieve anything at all either. Venezuelan President Maduro proposed during his yearly speech to parliament last week “to unite efforts and paths in Latin America and the Caribbean to advance in the formation of a powerful bloc of political forces, of economic power that speaks to the world.” He added that this would simultaneously advance his Chinese counterpart’s vision of creating a community of shared future as well as his Russian one’s complementary goal of a
Latin America has struggled to free itself from the Mafia don to the north for a long time, in fits and spurts, as you well describe. In this struggle, they have always been plagued by setbacks: quisling collaborationist governments and outright Yankee intervetions. What may finally end the cycle of domination will be The Empire's inevitable decline, especially if accelerated by the dollar's demotion from being the world's reserve currency Watching this begin to happen in real time is fascinating.
Latin America has struggled to free itself from the Mafia don to the north for a long time, in fits and spurts, as you well describe. In this struggle, they have always been plagued by setbacks: quisling collaborationist governments and outright Yankee intervetions. What may finally end the cycle of domination will be The Empire's inevitable decline, especially if accelerated by the dollar's demotion from being the world's reserve currency Watching this begin to happen in real time is fascinating.