The legislator recalled the statements of the head of the United States Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, who has repeatedly and publicly referred to the region’s natural resources with the verb “we have” and the possessive “ours.”

Ajpi recalled that “since 2016 the main enemy (the United States) has been working to destroy our “Movimiento al Socialismo” (lit. “Movement for Socialism”),” and regretted that in 95 percent of the interviews conducted by representatives of national media, they have criticized Movimiento al Socialismo, or have referred pejoratively to the Government of Venezuela but that they hide the true tragedy that Argentina is currently suffering after the election of the self-proclaimed “libertarian” Javier Milei as president, whose measures to withdraw the State from fundamental functions for society has caused fast downfall in the livelihood of the population.

Addressing the issue of “The Geopolitical Dispute of the South American Arc”, philosopher Rafael Bautista Segales, one of the speakers in the debate, highlighted that in the recent presidential elections Venezuela resisted the onslaught of a dying imperialism that is becoming more aggressive in the region in the face of the emergence of a multipolar world that increasingly reduces its global hegemony.

Segales emphasized that this was possible because President Hugo Chavez managed to cultivate a spirit and identity of his own in the Venezuelan people, which constitutes a horizon based on the ideological project that the deceased leader cemented. “Trusting the people does not mean taking them out to march or taking them to vote, but rather making them constitute power,” he said.

Referring to the current global situation, characterized by true fascist practices of the imperial elites, Segales warned that “it cannot be interpreted with geopolitical concepts from the 19th or 20th century and ideas alien to our reality produced in the United States and Europe”.

Addressing similar issues, Venezuelan ambassador César Trómpiz, the second speaker, explained that a process of popular democracy was built in Venezuela with the power to exercise governance. “Sovereignty resides in the people, the indirect exercise is in the vote and the direct exercise is in participation,” he said, and highlighted the Venezuelan president’s call to create an anti-fascist internationalism, to stop the increasingly irrational and bellicose aggression of the United States and its allies.

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