Opinion Sur
After long decades of globalization based on the liberalization of markets and a sharp reduction in regulations, a notorious change in trend is emerging. In view of the consequences of this globalization, and starting with the core countries, governments are shaking off ideologies that no longer serve their interests and re-regulating international relations to protect their economies. That is, they withdraw from openings, close certain floodgates, take care of their enterprises, select what they import and from whom they import. They also restrict the export of strategic products. Markets are no longer absolute helmspersons; they contribute their own but under the regulatory umbrella set by governments. First one’s own, then others.
As it is historically the case, while the core countries change course and adapt their ways of functioning to new circumstances, the non-core countries take time to react and continue in a dynamic that will end up suffocating them. Another enormous new challenge is opening up, which is expressed as economic but rooted in the new ideologies that emphasize global functioning. A different process that covers from the global to the different national developments. The new course is not to close ourselves off from the world but to act economically and culturally without leaving anyone behind, taking care of our peoples, our workers, our industries, our countryside, our small and medium-sized enterprises, the productive mobilization of the entire popular economy.
Greetings,
The Editors
