The Puebla Group, which brings together 62 populist, leftist, revolutionary and progressive leaders from Latin America and Spain, has returned four years later to its origins in the Mexican city to celebrate its ninth summit. A conclave in which they no longer hide their dictators: Delcy Rodríguez, Bolivarian vice president and right hand of Nicolás Maduro, arrived in Puebla on Friday to participate in meetings and debates. The presence of the Cuban Foreign Minister has also been confirmed by the organization, Bruno Rodriguez.
What was born as a WhatsApp group, led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the former Chilean candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominamiwith the approval of the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obradorbrings together today old dinosaurs of Latin American politics, who seek to consolidate common policies in the majority governments in the Americas while they whitewash the three friendly dictatorships: Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
“In unity we advance” is the slogan chosen at this new summit. The presence of Delcy Rodríguez represents a new nod to the Chavista revolution, precisely when the first point of the common agenda is to present a “progressive foreign policy”, including the creation of a common currency. Also led by Zapatero, Latin American leaders have committed themselves in recent months to excuse Maduro for the economic and social debacle that Venezuela is suffering to focus their criticism on international sanctions. The Colombian Gustavo Petrothe Brazilian Lula da Silva or the Argentine Alberto Fernandez They have repeated part of the script prepared in the last meetings of the Puebla Group, held in the Caribbean Santa Marta and in Mexico City.
“Latin America deserves a radical change in the management and administration of its public policies,” said another of the Group’s leaders, the former Colombian president. Ernesto Samper. The former president took advantage of his intervention to politically proselytize Mexico’s official candidate, the former mayor. Claudia Sheinbaum: “Its arrival is going to be a revolution for Latin America. It does not come only with the eyes of women, it comes to introduce a mainstreaming of gender in all public policies.”
Sheinbaum, who starts as a favorite in the presidential duel against the opponent Xochitl Galvezwill also lead an electoral event today Saturday in Puebla.