The Sao Paulo Forum has an addition called the Puebla Group, which was created on July 14, 2019 in the Mexican city of Puebla, and is nothing more than a club of dictators who want to enthrone themselves in countries that they have already ruled authoritarianly. The more they want to reinvigorate democracy, corrupt society, stifle the free press, legalize social protest, imprison leaders who oppose authoritarianism, weaken the armed forces; submit to justice, rob the tax treasury with impunity; brutally suppress social protests.

In Mexico they met in a real coven called “IX Forum of the Puebla Group”, Evo Morales could not be missing, who authoritatively ruled Bolivia for 14 years and wanted to stay in power per saecula saeculorum, even though the people said no to him in a referendum that announced that would run for the fourth time; Rafael Correa, who destroyed Ecuador in the 10 years he ruled as “chief of all powers”; Ernesto Samper, remembered in Colombia for his ties to the drug-trafficking mafias that financed his campaign for power; The list is long, but José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero from Spain, Manuel Zelaya from Honduras and other people who stand out with their record stand out.

The mentioned coven had the motto “We progress in unity” and they issued a proclamation that directly refers to our country, Panama and El Salvador, where the currency is the dollar. The spokesman for this false initiative was the ineffable former president of Colombia, Ernesto Samper, who remarked: “The world is experiencing a process of deglobalization and it has its own name, dedollarization. Only when we manage to improve this de-dollarization, we will be able to talk about the fact that a new space for global understanding has been created. De-dollarization is important because we have not realized that dollarization is a secret hegemonic weapon that has been used to give globalization its owner.”

Rafael Correa, a prominent member of the Puebla group, one of the most enthusiastic participants in the IX forum of this club of dictators must agree with the statements of his confederation, has declared de-dollarization in several international forums, as well as the stage of his party Andrés Arauz that proposes Ecuadorization. De-dollarization is one of the goals that Ecuador wants to impose, although its advisor, candidate Luisa González, denies this.

In short: the autocrats who pushed the people into the most absolute poverty, destroyed society’s ability to react, the will to fight and ruled at the top of the club, exalted in their vanity and false messianism, do not learn the lesson until the end. history, become dependent on power and try to perpetuate themselves at any cost.

It is worth remembering what Burmese Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, said about totalitarian governments that want to stay in power: “What really makes them perverse and corrupt is not absolute power, but the fear of losing it.” . (OR)