Msonkhano womaliza wa mayiko a ku America, ku Cartagena, Colombia mu 2012, unali tsoka kwa Purezidenti Obama. Panali zonyansa zokhudzana ndi Secret Service agents ndi ogwira ntchito zogonana, kuwonjezeka kwachigawenga kuchokera ku South motsutsana ndi US "Nkhondo Yolimbana ndi Mankhwala Osokoneza Bongo" yomwe inalephera, ndipo - koposa zonse - kutsutsa mgwirizano wa US ku Cuba.
Umboni wotsimikizika kuti awa sanali anthu omwe akuwakayikira omwe amayambitsa mavuto anali chenjezo lochokera kwa Purezidenti Manuel Santos waku Colombia - m'modzi mwa "abwenzi" ochepa a Washington m'derali - kuti sipadzakhalanso msonkhano wina popanda Cuba.
Chifukwa chake Purezidenti Obama adapereka mphatso ya Khrisimasi yodabwitsa kwa anansi ake akumwera chaka chatha: Pambuyo pazaka zopitilira theka laukali motsutsana ndi Cuba, pamapeto pake ayamba kukonza ubale. Takulandilani kuzaka za zana la 21, pomaliza! Ngakhale ma neocons aku Republican angachedwetse ntchitoyi ku Congress, a White House adawonetsa poyera kuti akuyembekeza kuti mwina pakhale akazembe otsegulidwa m'maiko awiriwa msonkhanowo usanachitike pa Epulo 10.
Koma Yehova anapatsa, ndipo Yehova watenga. Pa Marichi 9, a White House adalengeza "zadzidzidzi mdziko lonse" chifukwa cha "chiwopsezo chodabwitsa pachitetezo cha dziko" choyambitsidwa ndi Venezuela. Oyang'anira a Obama adayesa kunyalanyaza chilankhulochi ngati mwachizolowezi, koma dziko lapansi likudziwa kuti zilankhulo zowopsa zotere komanso zilango zomwe zikutsatira zitha kukhala zowopsa ku thanzi ladziko lomwe lasankhidwa - m'mbuyomu nthawi zina amatsatiridwa ndi nkhondo.
Zowopsa kwambiri pakadali pano, ku Senate yaku US kumva pa Marichi 17, a Alex Lee wa Dipatimenti Yaboma adalengeza kuti zilango zomwe zachitika pano ndi "zoyamba" zotsutsana ndi Venezuela. Zachidziwikire, dziko lakunja kwa Washington likudziwa kuti zilangozo sizikukhudzana ndi kuphwanya ufulu wa anthu ku Venezuela. Kuyambira 2000 mpaka 2010, asilikali a ku Colombia anapha anthu wamba osalakwa oposa 5,700; boma la United States linapitirizabe kupereka mabiliyoni a madola thandizo la asilikali ndi apolisi. Ku Honduras, olamulira a Obama adachitapo kanthu kuti awonetsetse kuti nkhondo ya 2009 yotsutsana ndi boma losankhidwa mwa demokalase ya Mel Zelaya ipambana. Ndipo ku Mexico, ophunzira 43 adasowa miyezi isanu ndi umodzi yapitayo ndikugwirizana ndi akuluakulu aboma ndi apolisi, komanso mwina apolisi aboma komanso boma. Koma boma la US likuwoneka kuti silikukhudzidwa, ndipo silingaganizirenso zochepetsera thandizo lankhondo ku Mexico.
Zomwe zilangozo zidawonetseranso bwino, kwa omwe samadziwa kale, ndikuti kutsegulira kwa Obama ku Cuba kudayimira kusintha konse mu njira yonse ya Washington kuderali: Cholinga chokulitsa ubale wamalonda ndi ukazembe ndi Cuba makamaka chinali kutsata zambiri. njira yabwino yochepetsera boma la Cuba - ndi maboma onse akumanzere m'derali. Izi zikuphatikizapo Brazil, kumene US State Department inapereka ndalama zothandizira kufooketsa boma la Workers' Party (PT). mu 2005, malinga ndi zolemba za boma la US.
Oimira a Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina ndi pafupifupi mayiko onse ku America adalankhula motsutsana ndi zilango ku Organisation of America States mwezi watha ku Washington. Union of South America Nations adafunsidwa kuchotsedwa kwawo. Momwemonso Community of Latin America ndi Caribbean Nations, yomwe ikuphatikizapo maiko onse ku hemisphere kupatula US ndi Canada. Ndipo pa Marichi 26, kazembe wotsutsa wa boma la Lara adatumiza a kalata kwa Purezidenti Obama ndikumupempha kuti "atenge nthawi kuti amve mawu a anthu aku Venezuela ndi mayiko ena aku Latin America omwe alankhula mokomera kuchotsedwa kwa lamulo lomwe mudasaina."
"Ngati pali dziko lomwe lili pachiwopsezo ku America," anati Nduna Yowona Zakunja ku Ecuador a Ricardo Patiño, "ndi United States, chifukwa idalanda mayiko mpaka kalekale. … Iwo ayambitsa kulanda boma. … Ndipo izo zinalimbikitsa ulamuliro wankhanza.” Boma la Cuba lidayankhanso mwamphamvu, ndikuchotsa chiyembekezo cha Obama kuti adzachita chilichonse msonkhanowo usanachitike. Zokambirana ku Havana zomwe zimayembekezeredwa mpaka pakati pa sabata zinatha mwadzidzidzi Lolemba, March 16. Kotero Obama adzapita kumsonkhano wopanda kanthu komanso ndi dzira pankhope pake chifukwa cha kusuntha kosaganiziridwa bwino.
Zilango izi motsutsana ndi Venezuela zikuphwanya malamulo charter ya Organisation of America States, kuphatikiza Article 20, ndi Article 19, yomwe imati:
Palibe State kapena gulu la mayiko omwe ali ndi ufulu kulowerera, mwachindunji kapena mwachindunji, pa chifukwa chirichonse, muzochitika za mkati kapena kunja kwa boma lina lililonse. Mfundo yomwe ili pamwambayi siikutanthauza mphamvu yokhayokha koma ndi njira zina zolepheretsa kapena kuyesa kuopseza za umunthu wa boma kapena zotsutsana ndi ndale, zachuma, ndi chikhalidwe.
Tiyeni tiyembekezere kuti maboma onse omwe akuyimiridwa pamsonkhanowu akhazikitsa nyundo kuti mtundu wa "mkhalidwe wankhanza" uwu usaloledwe.
Weisbrot ndi co-director wa Center for Economic and Policy Kafukufuku ku Washington, D.C. ndi purezidenti wa Malonda Achilendo Okhaokha. Iye ndiyenso mlembi wa bukhu likudzalo Zalephera: Zomwe "Akatswiri" Analakwitsa Pazachuma Padziko Lonse (Oxford University Press, 2015).
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