By Alberto Vizcarra Ozuna

Lhe summit of Mexico, the United States and Canada, which they called the tenth summit of North American leaders, was held without pain or glory. The meeting of Presidents Biden, López Obrador and Trudeau, which took place on January 10, was not accentuated by the global strategic situation, which important specialists place on the borders of a nuclear war due to the growing tension emerging from the military crisis between Russia and Ukraine. On the contrary, the three presidents looked relaxed and, accompanied by their respective wives, they enjoyed a visit to the National Palace in Mexico City, guided by the wife of López Obrador, full of sparkling moments and humorous games between the three couples. They donated material for a report in an international social magazine.

But underneath appearances, the worst dishes are usually cooked. The Anglo-American deployment on the governments of Latin America is guided by the goal of preventing and breaking any form of collaboration of the countries of the region with China, in particular with the plan of expansion of global infrastructures, designed by the Asian nation, known as the Belt and Road, through which and in less than a decade, China has invested nearly $100 billion in the construction of port infrastructure, railways and power plants , in some Latin American countries.

In the perspective of a unipolar globality, the idea of ​​combining efforts and common international objectives is intolerable. There is no room for the existence of other strong nations. The sine qua non is total subjugation to force-supported design that imposes rules and ignores rights. This is why NATO’s unstoppable expansion over the past 20 years has gone beyond commitments and agreements that it would not happen once the Warsaw Pact was dissolved and that it would not expand not in the Pacific either. Now the incursion of the transatlantic military corps into Latin America is being considered. Latin American nations, with left or right governments, are expected to remain tied to the geopolitics of unipolar globality.

For the Latin American business analyst, from the magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), Dennis Small, this is a display around which international financial powers exert enormous pressure on Latin American leaders to align them with global geopolitics. To this end, what is stimulated and, in some cases, supported directly by the Anglo-American intelligence centers is the weakening of the governments of the region, fueling processes of political polarization and social instability, such as than those which are frankly observed in the nations of the southern cone, notably Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. And indeed, in the old colonial policy, the phrase “divide and conquer” does not lose its validity.

After NAFTA was signed in the mid-1990s, Mexico became addicted to Anglo-American geopolitical ways. In the dynamics of global economic blocs, by joining the North American bloc, the country lost its self-determination in many lines related to economic and trade policy. The norms of the neoliberal model took hold and the country sailed for decades like a small boat alongside the battleship of the United States. The results of such unconditionality are unquestionably unfavorable, intensely reflected, not only in growing poverty, but also in the explicit abandonment of the conquest of industrial and technological sovereignty.

From President López Obrador’s behavior at the summit, it does not appear that he is addressing the complexity of US foreign policy goals. He adheres to the inertia of the trade policy imposed on Mexico since the signing of NAFTA, and in a kind of naive audacity he offers himself to the Biden government as a possible intermediary so that all of Latin America is sheathed in a free trade bloc with the United States and Canada. His pragmatic logic leads him to believe that the North American trade conflict with China is an excellent opportunity for Mexico to receive the greatest benefits in the scenario of these competitive efforts.

There are times when fear produces sleep and dulls the senses. It is possible that this fuels the naivety of President López Obrador, who seems not to realize that we are in a world where trade conflicts go hand in hand with a strategy of war, as evidenced by the goose step of the NATO. On January 10 the very President López Obrador proposed expanding the North American trade bloc to all of the Americas, and acknowledged that Biden held the key to achieving it, the European Union and NATO signed a joint statement to continue to strengthen their cooperation in the context of the war between Russia and Ukraine. A confirmation that the commercial alliances encouraged by the West contain the obligatory commitments of a militarist geopolitics aiming at a kind of world dictatorship, which imposes everything by force and in the name of democracy.

Mexico must not continue like a wagon on a railroad heading towards war. At the end of January this year, the seventh Summit of Heads of State of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) will be held in Argentina, which currently holds the presidency. Chinese President Xi JinPing is invited to the meeting. CELAC has maintained an openness aimed at stimulating commercial and political relations not subject to unipolarism, nor to the exclusion of its members, and inclined towards commercial agreements that have as their fundamental balance the development and construction of economic infrastructures. basis for the countries of the Americas. Latin. This spirit aligned with the Chinese government.

The meeting in Argentina is a good opportunity for Mexico and President López Obrador to breathe fresh air and get out of the ways that lead the country to fall behind NATO’s imperial policy.