“Rights of the world, unite”: a particular conclave of leaders in Mexico

Perhaps in revenge, after the hiring of Gustavo Petro in Colombia, Gabriel Boric in Chile, Pedro Castillo in Peru and the victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, the most conservative right of the Americas and Europe organized this weekend your own conclave. A way to atone for the recent electoral defeats of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro?

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC, in English) meets for two days in Mexico City, and mentions a list of names that includes the writer and former candidate for the presidency of France Eric Zemmour -located to the right of Marine Le Pen herself-, and the leader of the Spanish far-right party Vox, Santiago Abascal, who will participate with a video message.

The meeting, which according to analysts seeks to impose its neo-fascist current in Latin Americais sponsored by the American Conservative Union, of the United States, and by the Movimento Viva México, directed by the actor Eduardo Verástegui, a furious anti-abortionist and Covid 19 denier, who is already indicated as a future independent or “citizen” presidential candidate, in open opposition to Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Among the Latin Americans there will be the former Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast, leader of the Republican Party, the Bolivian businessman Luis Fernando Camacho, governor of the Department of Santa Cruz -enemy number 1 of the MAS government- and the deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the Brazilian president.

Javier Milei, present

From Argentina came none other than Javier Milei, leader of the organization La Libertad Avanza, a rising media star who does not rule out running for president in the 2023 elections.

One of the figures confirmed in the assembly and who is hogging the spotlight is the American Steve Bannon, Trump’s strategist, recently sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to collaborate with a congressional commission investigating the assault on the Capitol on September 6 . 2021.

There will also be the president of Guatemala Alejandro Giammattei, the Republican senator for Texas Ted Cruz and the former Polish president Lech Walesa, among other well-known and less known faces.

The list also includes Jay Aeba, president of the Union of Japanese Conservatives; Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the Hungarian Government and Valerie Huber, President of the Women’s Health Institute, among others

According to several political analysts, one of the consequences of this conclave could be sowing the seeds of a far-right party in Mexico by an extremist faction of the conservative National Action Party, the main opposition party.

Members of this group, including Senator Julen Rementería and members of the El Yunque underground organization, have already flirted with Spain’s Vox party and warmly welcomed Santiago Abascal a few months ago when he visited to promote his “Letter from Madrid.” .

This particular conservative conclave has already garnered strong criticism from the region’s leaders, including Mexican President López Obrador himself, who spared no adjectives for the organizers: “Racist, classist, discriminatory, corrupt and without moral scruples,” he described them.

Even so, the president wanted to show strength. This encounter, he assured him, “doesn’t harm us at all.” On the contrary, he noted: “It helps us in this plan that we have to inform, lead as conservatives think.”

The group will have two days to brainstorm.