The Sao Paolo Forum and the Yankee Attacks against Our America

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The Sao Paolo Forum and the Yankee Attacks against Our America
Published in Ahora (Cuba) on 28 August 2014 by Angel Guerra Cabrera
Translated from Spanish by Tristan Franz.
Edited by Gillian Palmer.
Posted on September 4, 2014.

The Sao Paolo Forum, which groups leftists, progressives and anti-neoliberals in Latin America and the Caribbean, is celebrating its 20th meeting in Bolivia this week. Perhaps the most important meeting to date, it comes at a time marked by important advances of the major powers in the region and the persistent efforts of the United States to keep them down.

With such circumstances, the Bolivian hosts have carefully planned the event with the recent struggles of Latin and Caribbean people in mind. It includes a diversity of organizations, not always strictly partisan and less avant-garde, and cases like those of Bolivia and Ecuador, where important social movements have been decisive in consolidating anti-neoliberal governments.

The forum is conducting an evaluation of the progressive governments of the region to analyze what needs to be done within the current anti-imperialist and ALC forces. They will have to take into account the dynamic state of geopolitics caused by multi-polarity and the endless crisis of capitalism plaguing the world, in particular the United States’ mega-crisis of 2008, which has yet to end.

The FSP (Sao Paolo Forum) was founded in 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and when the ALC was alive and well in Cuba, with the political power available to achieve a socialist utopia. The objective of its first meeting in the Brazilian city was to come up with an outline for transitioning power to leftist forces in conditions much more adverse than those of just a few years ago.