Although the countries of South and Central America have no influence on Israel's policies towards Gaza and the West Bank, the voices of their leaders (President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, Luis Arca of Bolivia, Gabriel Boric of Chile, or Xiomara Castro of Honduras) sound more clearly and critically than the voice of US president Joe Biden, who has an actual influence on this policy, and it is essential.
The burden of the American pouch is simply a warrant of Israel's impunity, which, like the United States, wants to stand outside global law, ignoring the four-time calls from the UN to halt attacks on civilians in Gaza. Following respective failed attempts, the UN safety Council adopted on 15 November a resolution on the essential interruptions in the fighting and corridors for civilians, even here the US, the UK and, paradoxically, Russia abstained. Earlier, the US and the United Kingdom had blocked attempts at more ambitious resolutions.
This difference in attitudes between Europe (under NATO protection) and the countries of South and Central America is due to the experience of the second with their own oppressor and colonizer, who was just the United States. The region is profoundly inspired by the Spanish civilian War (1936-39) and its communist and anarchist traditions. Thanks to the wave of immigration from Spain after this war, mainly to Mexico, in South and Central America, Marx is inactive read as an crucial philosopher. Hence, the region's attitude towards the Cold War was completely different – erstwhile the South of America was philosophically closer to the ideas declared by the russian Union than to American capitalism.
The colonial U.S. policy towards confederate neighbours was started in 1823, erstwhile the 5th president of the United States, James Monroe, announced the alleged Monroe Doctrine, which announced Europe: a war from our part of the world; we ourselves will colonize it. As the starting point of violent politics, I accept the war against the recently formed Mexico (1845–1846), which resulted in the United States taking over half of the land of its south-western neighbour, including California; the final – invasion of Panama in 1989 (for Papa Reagan; earlier the United States helped teardrop Panama distant from Colombia to dig and control Panama Canal).
Therefore, as long as since planet War II, Europe has been treating the United States as a savior from behind the large water, South America and Central America and the Caribbean have always known the US as the devil as small. U.S. policy towards an area that happens in the United States called the "court of America" (remembering the Russian word "near foreign"), has always been based on exploitation and on a greater and stronger advantage over the smaller and weaker.
That's why the fun part of the Latins is that the United States sees themselves and is seen as the Batman of the world. Fortunately, Latinos, like the mediate East countries, besides know very well that government and police frequently operate like mobs. They besides saw with their own eyes that the US was supporting obedient dictators in South and Central America, notoriously blocking democratic tendencies.
The countries of Central and South America can be divided into those that have a conservative government: Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Guatemala and Costa Rica – which after the Hamas attack of 7 October (1400 killed, 240 kidnapped) expressed full support for Israel. The second group consists of countries with left-wing leaders, the most crucial being the president of Brazil, the largest country in this group, socialist Lula da Silva. The same group includes Bolivia, Colombia, Chile or Honduras, which, after the Israeli counterattack against Gaza (so far, 11,000 killed, including 4,000 children) cancelled their diplomats from Israel. Wednesday, November 15, that's what Belize did.
For many countries in this region, Cuba remains the model, the only island country that did not comply with US politics during the Cold War. Cuba's dead leader, Fidel Castro, was the first in the region to break diplomatic relations with Israel, in 1973, due to Israel's policy towards neighbours in the mediate East. (Since Cuba's independency from Spain, its first colonizer, The states never left independent Cuba alone – the celebrated American prison in Guantanamo, Cuba was established in 1898).
After Fidel Castro came to power, the States organised at least 8 assassinations on his life. In 1961, they one more time attempted to take control of the country, attempting to invade the Bay of Pigs. erstwhile this failed, the US introduced (illegal from the point of view of global law) sanctions against a country that continues to block Cuba's economical improvement and keep its population in poverty. possibly that's why the Cubans realize how bad things must be in Gaza right now?
Left American tradition is inactive very strong and "pink wave“ the return to left-wing politics in the 21st century continues to increase. Almost all country in the region is looking at U.S. politics untrustfully. In 1973, the US helped to remove Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende – this day is remembered present not only in Chile as "the first 11 September". president Allende succeeded General Augusto Pinochet, who in the right-wing military dictatorship He kept Chile by the mouth By 1981, 8,000 people were later killed in the fighting itself, another 6,000 were abducted. Within a period after the general coup, the fresh government murdered 15,000 civilians. A full of 28,000 citizens died for Pinochet – and partially due to these experiences present President of Chile, Boricexpressed his strong opposition to Israel's policy towards Gaza.
The president of the next country, who the United States holds in check sanctions – Venezuela, considered by the West to be a kind of Iran of South America. The confrontation of this Goliath with David has been going on since 1999, erstwhile the socialist Hugo Chávez, whom the citizens of this country loved, came to power. Since 2005 Venezuela is subject to sanctions, pooring in an increasingly violent reality
It must be remembered, however, that both anti-American dictatorships (Nikaragua or Venezuela) and the largest democracies in the region (Argentina and Chile) are in the group of countries condemning Israel and US policies towards Gaza.
In 1976, the U.S. organized (under Henry Kissinger's wire) a military coup that overturned Democratic president Isabel Peron of Argentina – 30 000 people were killed. The current president, Alberto Fernandez, condemned Israel's policy towards Gaza after 7 October, 2023, but did not break up diplomatic relations. In Argentina, there are 200,000 judaic people (most in the region) who became targets for terrorist attacks: in 1992, Hezbollah attacked the Israeli embassy and in 1994, the judaic Center in Buenos Aires.
Israel, on the another hand, was the main weapon deliveryer erstwhile the CIA carried out a coup in Guatemala in 1954 and erstwhile US-backed right-wing guerrilla Contras fought the left-wing Sandinist movement. Thanks to U.S. intervention, wishing to aid American fruit businesses in Guatemala, the country for 40 years was under military dictatorship. During this period, 250,000 citizens were murdered or disappeared forever.
In 1964, president Kennedy helped in a military coup in Brazil due to the fact that he refused to let Brazil “become another Cuba”. The current socialist president Lula da Silva played a function in Israel's negotiations with the UN (mainly due to the fact that Brazil presently holds the UN). Lula spoke to the leaders of the mediate East and Europe, trying to negociate at least the creation of a humanitarian corridor for civilians in Gaza. On the last day of October, Lula severely condemned the deficiency of UN action to halt Israeli attacks. Brazil's particularity is besides the political divide between right-wing Protestants and liberal Catholics who sympathize with Gaza (a akin religious-political division exists in the US).
The United States was formed in 1776. Since then, they have intervened in the region more than 60 times, most frequently including the engagement of the American armed forces. There is no request to look further to realize why the U.S. abroad policy, including the mediate East, does not find besides many supporters in this region.
