The countries of Latin America are similar to each other, although each has accents and intensities that give its own color to its reality. Seemingly alien to each other, throwing nicknames and nicknames at each other, setting prejudices and boundaries, the fact is that we had similar stories. Thus, at the beginning of the 19th century, the first revolutionary wave took place that swept the continent and turned all Spanish colonies, except Cuba and Puerto Rico, into sovereign states. The influence of the American and French revolutions is decisive in this transformation.

A few decades later, the second wave took place, that of liberal revolutions, which tried to destroy the confessional and noble state inherited from the Spanish colony. The Juarista reform in Mexico can be taken as a model of these transformations, which almost always required armed victories to prevail. Their contribution was very important to the societies in which they took place, fundamental rights and freedoms became a real possibility, legal equality was proclaimed and reasonably democratic states were put into operation. These processes lasted from the middle of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century and overlapped with the third wave, that of nationalist revolutions. In reality, we must call these statists because they made the state, the supposed incarnation of the nation, the absolute sovereign of society in all fields. Once again, the Mexican phenomenon was the paradigm that these movements would follow, although there were other very important ones like the Bolivian one. The legacy of these regimes are bureaucratized and corrupt states, which have produced general retardation throughout the subcontinent. After the middle of the 20th century, the fourth wave appeared, that of the communist revolution. At first it was consolidated only in Cuba, but later it dominated Nicaragua and Venezuela. In any case, it produced the greatest economic and human disasters in Latin America. If it was once a false hope, it now lies rotten and despised in the gutter of history.

But this week’s event could be the start of a fifth wave, one that finally puts us on the path to prosperity and peace. It is about the triumph of the libertarian Javier Milei in the Argentine elections. His proposal is a radical transformation for the establishment of a republican system of freedom and dignity, putting an end to the statist and beggarly model derived from nationalist revolutions and emphasized by bad examples of socialism. Okay, that’s what we understand is going to be asked for, but it scares me to see that supporters of trends that have nothing to do with libertarianism immediately jumped on the bandwagon. It should not be believed that anyone who declares himself an anti-communist is a libertarian, as the Arab sheikhs do. There I saw the incompetent conservative Bolsonaro, the Chinese partner Bukele, the fascist Abascal, all with the blessing of the protectionist lumpen billionaire Trump. These libertarians have nothing, they are agents of regression… along these lines, we will become friends with Orban and be one step away from an alliance with Putin. Let’s be careful, President Milei, we are in a hurry. (OR)