The Argentine ambassador to the OAS, Carlos Raimundi, maintained this Monday that the region “is not in a stage, in historical terms, what could be called revolutionaryInstead, he explained that he believes Latin America is in a process of “construction of social and political majorities to stop the most terrible ravages of neoliberalism”.
“Being representing the country before the OAS has allowed me to have a more panoramic vision of what is happening,” said the diplomat for AM750. For this reason, he avoided referring fully to the reality experienced by the Frente de Todos: “I don’t want to be too detailed with what happens in Argentina.”
However, in geopolitical terms, Raymond maintained: “Yes, I can tell you that, at the level of Latin American politics, we are not in a stage in historical terms that we could call revolutionary, of great and deep structural transformations”.
Instead, he pointed: “We are in a stage, I tell you looking at Brazil, Peru, Chile, Colombia, where even in some of our countries progressive options have won, on the sidelines for structural transformation that I still don’t see imminent.
“I see more of a stage of construction of social and political majorities to stop the most terrible ravages of neoliberalism, I see a historical margin up to there“, he specified.
OAS reviews
On the other hand, Raymond spoke about the reality of Organization of American States (OAS). “Those of us who profess progressive, nationally popular ideas and values, we knew what it was historically, what the OAS is, what it represented, what things it tolerated and silenced for so many years“, beginning.
And he added: “That I have reaffirmed with my presence. That story that is not associated precisely with the defense of great popular values.”
“We have said in all the forums, not in a personal capacity, but as a joint political position, that the organizations, both the financial organizations and the multilateral political organizations, they have not had the updating, the remodeling, that was required from a change in the power structures in the world“, he added.
On this point, he argued that international organizations operate with the same rules as when they were created, in the second post war of the 20th century. “Things in the world, power relations, force relations, have changed profoundly. So they do not reflect this new situation in the world compared to the moment in which they were created,” he said.
Thus, he criticized the fact that although the OAS is an organization made up of thirty-three States, “between two, which are the United States and Canada, they account for about 80 percent of the region’s GDP“.
“You have a region where it is true that politically the vote of the largest state and the vote of the smallest state are worth the same in formal terms, in terms of democratic appearance, but the ability to influence that the most powerful states have, being such an unbalanced organism, it is very large,” he commented.
Of course, this phenomenon is something that does not only occur with the OAS: “It’s the same with the IMF.“. “Why does Argentina with the Monetary Fund have to talk more with some countries than with others? Because they have more power. Because they bring more funds.”
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