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LATIN AMERICA
LATIN AMERICA
A Tale of Two CONTINENTS
Recent events in Latin America and Europe help us better understand the new world order and the risks and dangers posed by a superpower that has regressed to the Middle Ages or, more recently, to the Wild West, where the law of the strongest prevailed.
The world "order" established after World War II and the globalization of the last 50 years crumbled when Venezuela, in Latin America, and Greenland, in Europe, became the targets of the ambition and greed of one of the most powerful armies in the world today.
The responses could not have been more different, and it is this contrast that interests us today, not the excuses that justify the threats and aggression. Europe, which had much to lose economically and militarily, reacted as a bloc and thwarted an announced invasion of Greenland that seemed imminent. Latin America remained divided, issuing timid statements that proved useless.
The result was interference in the sovereignty of an independent country, where the interests and desires of the powerful prevailed, while the population continues to suffer as before.
From the chaos of present-day geopolitics, we rescue the recent speech of Mark Carney, Prime Minster of Canada at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It’s worth listening to it and reflecting on it.