OPINION
The Sao Paulo Forum
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall, which was the certification of the collapse and failure of communism, the Sao Paulo Forum was born. Founded by the Brazilian Workers’ Party in Sao Paulo in 1990 to bring together and support left-wing parties in Latin America and to confront new economic and political trends such as neoliberalism. Membership of the parties gives them the right to have a voice and vote and full participation in meetings and activities.
In the year of its founding, the only member party that exercised state power in its country was the Communist Party of Cuba. Over the years, various left-wing parties would come to power through free elections. Such was the case of Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador and Lula Da Silva in Brazil, which has made it a powerful organization whose purpose is to oppose everything related to the United States and the capitalist system in Latin America.
Through a viperous discourse, where the use of lies and double talk is to exalt the image of the communists, they have as an ally thinkers of the Theology of Liberation, where they declare that «Jesus Christ is not truly God, but a kind of symbol of struggle and social justice.» This far-fetched opinion has been answered by the fact that Jesus multiplied the loaves, the communists multiplied poverty.
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It has been claimed that drug trafficking has had a relationship with this forum, since its “founding meeting, held in July 1990, was attended by representatives of the FARC and the ELN, Colombian terrorist organizations that traffic drugs, mainly cocaine.” The ties were strengthened since Hugo Chávez, who had direct relations with the Colombian guerrillas, created the conditions for Venezuela to have the characteristics of a narco-state.
The Sao Paulo Forum has developed its own cultural war, and has had a great success with gender ideology, because “it presents itself as a conquest of democracy, capitalism and freedoms, when in reality it is the result of a Marxist operation to subvert Western Christian values; and secondly, because it was able to establish a new language, through which different sexual deviations are presented as human rights.” This despite the fact that in communist countries members of the LGBT group are persecuted and discriminated against.
The cultural war is not a new phenomenon, as the United States and the Soviet Union with the communist countries of Eastern Europe were engaged in great cultural battles. Then, from the 1960s, Cuba joined them, with Casa de las Américas as its standard-bearer. (See Frances Stonor Saunders, The CIA and the Cultural Cold War.)
When an official Venezuelan government document signed in 2008 by Hugo Chávez’s finance minister revealed that the country had granted at least $7 million to leaders of the left-wing political group Podemos, it was «with the aim of spreading the ‘Bolivarian movement’ in Spain.» The recipients of the funds were Pablo Iglesias, Juan Carlos Monedero and Jorge Verstrynge. Iglesias was found to be living like a millionaire, despite being a Marxist.
The counterculture of the Sao Paulo Forum contrasts the extraordinary culture of Western civilization with materialism, existentialism, Malthusianism, liberation theology, indigenism, environmentalism and gender ideology, among others. Alejandro Peña Esclusa addresses this issue in his text, The Cultural War of the Sao Paulo Forum, where he provides a precise x-ray of this group that is distinguished by its hatred of the United States and capital in general.
Virtually all Latin American countries, with their respective communist-oriented parties, are members of the Sao Paulo Forum. From Puerto Rico, there are the Socialist Front, the Hostosiano National Independence Movement, the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of Puerto Rico. All with a common goal: to undermine our political relationship with the United States and bring independence against the will of the people.
This is a group where the vital and daily needs and problems of human beings are not addressed. Everything is based on concepts, verbal tricks, political strategies, ideological discourse and fighting the capitalist system, and this is what would happen to us in Puerto Rico if any of them came to power.
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