Opinion Sur
United States and China are renewing their national leaderships and it seems as if what those two giants decide to be and do will condition the rest of the world. This is partly true. It is to the extent that the economy and the geopolitics and military influence of the two larger powers significantly affect each and every one of the Southern hemisphere countries. In a certain way they represent parametrical conditions, circumstances that affect our destinies but on which we have a slight capacity to influence. However, it is in order to specify that it is possible to develop strategies of our own at two very different levels.
On one hand, each country, each community, has autochthonous margins to take action that could, should be used as much as possible. Those seeking to make us believe there is only one type of socioeconomic policy of absolute and universal validity extracted from the narrow prescription pad that reflects the interests, ideologies and world vision of great powers and their local partners, are lying. There is much left to imagine, to innovate and to transform in our part of the world and nothing or nobody should deviate us from our own quests, from exercising our existential creativity. We must respect what others think and propose, the same way we must assert that others do respect what our Southern hemisphere countries think and propose for themselves.
On the other hand, even though in isolation each of our small size countries is far from having the capacity to influence and condition the decisions of the bigger powers, united we do acquire the entity and strength that is necessary to participate and be heard in the global dialogue. This is particularly crucial in a historic phase of accelerated transition towards building new socioeconomic systems to replace the concentrative prone financial capitalism that has generated such an enormous crisis in the affluent countries. Regional unity is today more necessary than ever if we aspire to have influence on the new global architecture: regional blocks in Latin America, Africa and Asia that can benefit from our countries’ political and cultural diversity and that, with that base, can be capable of conceiving and giving viability to new world features as we see and understand them.
Those great avenues are also the ones that frame and inspire the articles Opinión Sur publishes.
Cordial greeting.
The Editors
