Foro de São Paulo (FSP) is a conference of leftist political parties and other organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean. It was launched by
Lula and his Worker’s Party of Brazil in
1990 in the city of
São Paulo.
Actually, the
FSP is the vastest and most powerful political body that has ever existed in Latin America and remains relatively unknown to the American and, by the way, also worldwide public opinion.
The organization’s goal was to rebuild the Communist movement, shaken by the fall of the
USSR. The means to achieve it consisted in promoting the union and integration of all Communist and pro-Communist parties and movements of Latin America, and in developing new strategies, more flexible and better camouflaged, for the conquest of power.
Members of de FSP which are currently in government power:
1.
Bolivia: Evo Morales
2.
Brazil: Dilma Roussef
3.
Chile: Michelle Bachelet
4.
Cuba: Raúl Castro
5.
Dominica: Roosevelt Skerrit
6.
Dominican Republic: Danilo Medina
7.
Ecuador: Rafael Correa
8.
El Salvador: Salvador Sanchéz Cerén
9.
Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega
10.
Peru: Ollanta Humala
11.
Uruguay: Tabaré Vásquez
12.
Venezuela: Nicólas Maduro
13.
Argentina: Cristina Kirchner (not a member but aligned with Foro members)
LULA AND THE BRAZILIAN PROTESTS
The São Paulo Forum was created by Lula and discussed with Fidel Castro by the end of
1989, being founded in the following year under the presidency of Lula, who remained in the leadership of that institution for twelve years, nominally relinquishing it in order to take office as president of Brazil in
2003.
The legend of Lula, as a democrat and a moderate, only holds up thanks to the suppression of the most important fact of his political biography, the foundation of the São Paulo Forum. This suppression, in some cases, is fruit of genuine ignorance; but in others, it is a premeditated cover-up.
It is clear that Lula and his party, being the founders and the strategic centre of the Forum, had to keep a low profile, leaving to more peripheral members, like
Hugo Chávez and Evo Morales, the flashiest or most scandalous part of the job. Hence, the false impression that there are “two lefts” in Latin America, one democratic and moderate, and the other radical and authoritarian.
This is one of the main reasons that more than 2 million Brazilians went to the streets protesting yesterday (3/15). We are just tired of living in a society where we are not allowed to disagree with the government without be labeled as a fascist or extremist.
US INVOLVMENTWhile some people believe the U.S. government has remained largely indifferent to this situation, others argue that the United States has, in fact, aided the revolution.
While the U.S. government has traditionally been perceived as opposed to leftist regimes in Latin America, the
Obama administration took a different stance in Honduras, openly siding with Chavez, Castro, and the FARC in demanding the return to power of Honduras’ criminal leftist President Manuel Zelaya after he was ousted for flagrant constitutional violations.
SOURCES [
link to www.olavodecarvalho.org]
[
link to forodesaopaulo.org]
[
link to www.thenewamerican.com]
[
link to www.csmonitor.com]
Last Edited by God of X on 03/17/2015 09:18 AM