Latin America-Europe: Road to the summit of nations in Madrid! http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article17345

For over a decade, Latin America appears as an area of storms to global neoliberal domination. She has experienced the largest mobilizations against the collective social, political and environmental implications of predatory capitalism in the south, and in some cases a chain reaction that led to the resignation of Conservative governments, the challenge of major privatization and a return to the front of the stage left as the social question. Much more than elsewhere, there is in the subcontinent a crisis of hegemony of the bourgeoisie and the neoliberal system.

The changing balance of power in Latin America is primarily the product of social movements offensive, and transnational radical democratic demands have combined (constituent assemblies, recognition of the multinational state) with an anti-neoliberal, anti-imperialist and internationalist . The reality of class struggle is clearly differentiated by country: indigenous struggles in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, the unemployed in Argentina, the landless in Brazil and Bolivia, labor mobilizations in Mexico or Chile, Central American feminist ... 

A continent of resistance /These resistors, in a continent that has suffered from state terrorism, the explosion of debt, the dictates of the IMF, are also reflected in the political arena through the establishment of governments that are often social liberals but also anti- imperialists. And in the face conquering project of the United States, assert forcefully alternatives to regional integration. This is the case of Brazil, which is increasingly seen as being 'sub-imperialist "defending its partial autonomy deal with the giant North, but also of the Bolivarian Alternative of the peoples of our America (ALBA), which under the leadership of Cuba and the Bolivarian Venezuela, tries to argue that integration of other peoples is possible. 

Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela posed a clear question of anti-imperialist alternative to neoliberalism, none of these processes has, until now, on a path of capitalist breakdown and global confrontation with the local elites. The hazards of this strategy are clear on issues of property or development model, the key issue twenty-first century. Beyond the discourse on living well and ecology, the perspective often defended by governments is a production-oriented and model extractive raw materials for export, with a left imbued with a developmentalist industrial imagination from nationalism popular 1950-1960. 

And explained by the projects "ando-Amazonian capitalism" of the Bolivian government or support the Bolivarian continental project of road infrastructure and mega-pipeline IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure). Faced with such projects, many social movements and indigenous call for a radically different world view, which does not sacrifice the common good and development of public services while preserving the planet. These ideas and struggles to argue elsewhere, like the call to "leave the oil in the ground" in the Yasuni park in Ecuador. 

The return lines? The current situation is however that of all the dangers, and the lines are always in our ability to recoup some of their lost influence. The electoral victory of a multimillionaire boss in Chile as the coup in Honduras, threats of coup "legal" in Paraguay or the Yankee military invasion in Haiti (which, after the earthquake has added to military occupation of the United Nations) suggests a scenario of conservative restoration in several countries, along with Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Panama.

This risk will also feeds the frustration of the popular classes against the social liberalism or contradictions of the policies of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa. It is facilitated by the immense media power and oligarchic economic sectors that are particularly offensive in Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela, hoping to gain more space in the forthcoming election. 

It is therefore an urgent need to translate our internationalist solidarity with the peoples of Latin American struggle, conducting joint campaigns. It is equally essential to understand and expose "our own imperialism when the European Union and its multinationals are full sail to regain Latin America and the Caribbean. 

The new colonial caravels The relationship that the European Union (EU) offers Latin American / Caribbean (LAC), which was accepted by most governments of LAC can be a hindrance to any possibility development of sovereign peoples of this region, while it increases the attacks against the social gains. More free trade, more deregulation, more privatization, more competition: is the model advocated by the Socialists and the right in France and the European Parliament, by the 27 EU governments and the European Commission European.

It was realized by the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2000. This treaty was established with the Lisbon Strategy's goal of making Europe a competitive market, a global power and create a "Euro-Latin American Association fully comprehensive" for 2012. Unsuccessful, the EU has proposed the signing of association agreements, country by country, and free trade agreements (FTAs) which are permanently on the ground suffering populations for several decades. Agreements have been signed with Mexico and Chile while to bring to a close at this moment negotiations with Peru and Colombia.

As for Mercosur countries, Brazil in mind, the willingness to resume negotiations on the FTA seems to be confirmed, while in Central America these negotiations are currently blocked by the opposition in Nicaragua, which did not reject as such, but refuses to recognize the presence and the Honduran government, from the coup d'état. These agreements have no purpose other than to strengthen the European and transnational capital. They convey the cult of export led to the overexploitation of natural resources, environmental destruction, the invasion of indigenous territories and the disappearance of the peasantry.

They explain the existence of GMOs, the appropriation of biodiversity by private firms and bio-piracy. They block access to essential medicines for millions of people who die because they can heal. Without these agreements, health does not depend on multinational pharmaceuticals. The EU persists, moreover, to impose and expand agreements on intellectual property rights involving the capture of the entire chain of life and in particular the food chain by agribusiness. We must fight these agreements is the meaning of our presence in Madrid.

And this battle must be based within the EU on the fight against privatization of public services, defense of social and conquest of new rights and against the masquerade of capitalism disguised as "green."Only the concrete solidarity of struggles in Europe with those of Latin America-Caribbean will build together the "socialism of the twenty-first century".