Some geopolitical tthinking [RE: [Marxism] The Latin American-US Realignment ]

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a: RE: [Marxism] The Latin American-US Realignment 
Remitido por: Jose G. Perez
Fecha: Sábado 8 de Mayo de 2004 
Hora: 3:59
*****

> >>And the closer Mexico gets to the US, the more it isolates Latin
> America's left-leaning states, like Brazil, Argentina, and Cuba,
> creating a bipolarity in the region, analysts say.<<
> 
> Inside México and throughout the region, everyone --left, right and
> center-- is scratching their heads wondering just what in the world Fox
> thinks he is doing with his "realignment." Mexico isn't "isolating" a few
> left-leaning states, it is isolating itself from Latin America. The last
> few days Fox's mouthpieces have been on TV explaining how Cuba's
> deportation of a man Mexico claimed it wanted amounted to gross
> interference in Mexico's internal affairs. 
> 

Maybe we could find an answer by reading the figures of economic 
realities.  Isn't Mexico today a split country, where the North (and 
Fox comes from the North) has become a giant maquila, a giant 
American sweatshop, while the South has been given the order to 
recede into barbarism and get lost (save for some touristic enclaves, 
which range from the Zapatista guerrilla sites to Cancún)?

It is my impression that, for a period longer than we would wish, 
Mexico is somehow or other lost, so to say, for Latin America (which 
means "for revolution").  Some say (among them, some Brazilian 
strategists such as Hélio Jaguaribe and Darc Costa) that only if we 
can strengthen a new pole of attraction by unifying South America 
shall we be able to gain Mexico (and all of Central America the 
willing Caribbean peoples included) to the cause of revolution.

In a sense, the Caribbean region (which extends from Puerto Rico to 
Acapulco, and from the sources of the Bravo river to the Orinoco 
delta) is still an "Imperial frontier". It has been historically such 
a frontier, ever since the newly spawned bourgeois nations in 
Northern Europe contested the right of Spain and Portugal to own it 
for themselves.  

Thus, in a not so far away future we may be witnessing new wars in 
that Paradise.  And if we don't our children will. These will be the 
wars between a revolutionary Latin America and the counter-
revolutionary imperialist bourgeoisie.  What we see in Cuba is a 
sample of what is to come.  

Mexico will be the prize in this war.  And, since capitalism has 
become a global system, maybe the subsistence of our species.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
"Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos".
Simón Bolívar al gobierno secesionista y disgregador de 
Buenos Aires, 1822
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 



_______________________________________________
Marxism mailing list
Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism