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On Dec. 2-5, Antigua, Guatemala, hosted the organized left from Latin America and beyond. Representatives of left parties met at the XI Foro de Sao Paulo to advance an anti-imperialist agenda and try to make some progress on a model of integration that could serve as an alternative to the neoliberalism under which the region has struggled for decades (see NotiSur, 1999-07-16).
The 700 political leaders of some 142 parties and organizations from 46 countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and Oceania were particularly energized by the recent presidential elections that brought victories for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil (see NotiSur, 2002-11-01) and Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador (see NotiSur, 2002-12-06). Oswaldo Palacios, spokesman for Ecuador's Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista (PCMLE) asked for the Foro's support for Gutierrez, who was elected president with the support of the majority of Ecuadoran left organizations and parties. "There is in Ecuador a growing anti-oligarchic, anti-imperialist, and democratic spirit," he said.
His enthusiasm resonated with that of Bolivians celebrating the surprisingly strong second-place showing of Evo Morales in presidential elections this past June. Morales, an indigenous leftist, might well have become president of Bolivia; the vote was tight enough that a president had to be chosen by the legislature (see NotiSur, 2002-08-09).
These outcomes prompted Pablo Ceto, Guatemalan congressional deputy to sum up for the press, "The population is beginning to opt for new leadership and for different parties to renounce neoliberal policies." Ceto represents the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), the revolutionary organization that battled government forces until the peace accords of 1966 turned his organization into a political party.
German Rodas of the Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano (PSE) said that Latin America is advancing in its confrontation with the prevailing neoliberal socioeconomic model, which has generated crisis and hopelessness in...
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