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By Alejandro Pea Escluza








 
Communism is surging south of the border, thanks to the work of lefties like Hugo Chavez and Luiz Ignacio Lula de Silva
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the principal foreign policy and intelligence institutions of the United States considered that communism had disappeared and they ruled it out as a real threat. Soon after, a new threat emerged: terrorism, and since then, intelligence organizations in the US lost interest in the subject, forgetting about communism in the process.


However, communism did not disappear. In Latin America, under the direction of Fidel Castro and with the support of Lula da Silva, all the leftist groups reorganized in the region with the purpose of taking power under the umbrella of the Forum of Sao Paolo. [1]



To conceal their intentions, the Forum of Sao Paolo (FSP) abandoned its Marxist discourse and adopted diverse themes to carry on their struggle: Appealing to indigenous populations, Liberation theology, and a fierce criticism of capitalism and globalization.


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The organization is typified by the strong relationship between its chief leaders: Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, Sandinista, Daniel Ortega, and, since 1995, Hugo Chvez, Venezuela’s president. His entrance marked a change of phase for that organization, since it was able to have control over an unlimited flow of petrodollars to expand.





Since 1990, when the Forum of Sao Paolo was first established its growth has been impressive. The Presidents of nearly every Latin American nation belong to the FSP or have achieved power supported by the Forum of Sao Paolo.



The United States has not been able to fully grasp the danger of the revival of communism in the region. It is perceived that the mere coexistence with the free market of some “moderate” members of the Forum of Sao Paolo mean that they   are not actively supporting the efforts of the Chavez/Castro Axis (Lula da Silva, Nstor Kirchner, Michelle Bachelet, Tabar Vsquez, Torrijos [2]); secondly, there is no present nuclear threat coming from any of these countries.   As can be seen in the following list there are communist as well as terrorist organizations that are represented in the Forum’s membership.



Some of the Participants of the Forum are [3]:



  • ArgentinaCommunist Party of Argentina

  • BarbadosClement Payne Movement

  • BoliviaCommunist Party of Bolivia

  • Brazil – Workers’ Party, Communist Party of Brazil

  • Chile – Communist Party of Chile, Socialist Party of Chile

  • ColombiaColombian Communist Party, National Liberation Army (FLN), Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

  • Costa RicaCosta Rican Peoples Party

  • CubaCommunist Party of Cuba

  • DominicaDominica Labor Party

  • Dominican RepublicDominican Liberation Party

  • El Salvador – Farabundo Mart National Liberation Front (FMNL)

  • Guatemala – Unin Revolucionaria Nacional de Guatemala (URNG)

  • GuyanaWorking People’s Alliance

  • MexicoParty of Labor, Popular Socialist Party and Partido de la Revolucin Democrtica (PRD)

  • Nicaragua – Sandinista National Liberation Front

  • ParaguayParaguayan Communist Party, Free Homeland Party

  • Peru – Peruvian Communist Party, Socialist Party of Peru. Ex-leaders of the MRTA.

  • Puerto RicoPuerto Rican Nationalist Party, Socialist Front, Hostosian National Independence Movement, University Pro-Independence Federation of Puerto Rico.

  • UruguayBroad Front, Communist Party of Uruguay, Socialist Party of Uruguay, Tupamaros

  • VenezuelaCommunist Party of Venezuela.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, some communist groups decided to accept the neo-liberal model in the economic front, but keeping their political scheme intact. But to coexist with the free market does not mean that they have embraced the model. In the case of Kirchner and Lula, they have made a pragmatic decision to “accept” free markets only because it is useful to them, but not because they disagree politically with Castro-Communism. In fact, every time they can, they support the Chvez regime.


Regarding nuclear armaments, it is true that up to now the Forum of Sao Paolo has not been able to obtain weapons of mass destruction, but it is only a matter of time. In the long run, its member’s alliances with Iran and North Korea will provide the necessary supplies and technology to achieve this goal.


The lack of understanding by the United States with respect to this threat is evident when its authorities think they will be successful by asking the “moderate leftists” to contain the “radical leftists” (Castro, Chvez, Morales, Correa, Ortega).


The Forum is not satisfied with their extraordinary accomplishments achieved up to now; they also want to have control over Colombia and Mexico. That is why, in the next few months they want to destabilize the administrations of Alvaro Uribe and of Felipe Caldern. The FARC and the PRD [4] of Lpez Obrador, members of the Forum of Sao Paolo, will have the political support and the petrodollars of this organization to use towards that end.


It is of vital importance for the security of the Western Hemisphere that the institutions of the United States open their eyes with respect to the new threat that is emerging on its southern border and that they carefully study the dangers posed by the Forum of Sao Paolo.   


*Alejandro Pea Esclusa is a leader of the Venezuelan Opposition and founder of the organization, Fuerza Solidaria. He ran against Hugo Chavez in the 1998 presidential elections and lectures widely throughout Latin America.







[1] The Sao Paulo Forum: fall and rise of communism. https://www.fuerzasolidaria.org/WebFS/Escritos/FSPFallAndRise.html



[2] Martn Torrijos Espino. President of Panama.



[3] Leftist Front-runners in Brazil, Nicaragua. Aug. 21, 2001. NewsMax.



[4] Party of the Democratic Revolution (in Spanish: Partido de la Revolucin Democrtica, PRD) is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador is affiliated with this group.

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