Sponsored by the Cultural Center for Cooperation, the initiative is organized by the Argentine Chapter of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity, a project bringing together thinkers created in 2003 at the suggestion of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.

At the first Roundtable last night, on the topic “The Imperialist Offensive in Latin America,” the panelists were journalist and political writer Stella Calloni, journalist and researcher Telma Luzzani, director of the Latin American and Caribbean News Service, Paula Gimenez, political scientist Atilio Boron, Cuban ambassador Pedro Pablo Prada, and director of the Cultural Center for Cooperation, Juan Carlos Junio.

Luzzani warned that Latin America and the Caribbean is experiencing interesting times, but ones fraught with danger. The United States built its expansionist project by viewing LAC as a large island, and from there, expanding to the rest of the world.

In its geopolitical conception, he noted, Washington wanted to plant its flag on the North Pole, Panama, and Antarctica.

It already has bases in the northernmost region, reestablished them on the Panamanian isthmus under the current government there, and, thanks to the subservience of President Javier Milei, managed to establish its base in Ushuaia, from where it reaches the South Pole.

The plan to use Ushuaia is underway with the approval of the current tenant of the Casa Rosada (Casa Rosada) to deploy in what was the Comprehensive Logistics Hub, a research and observation center, without submitting the project for approval by Congress, Luzzani warned.

It is necessary to revive the popular fervor in the region that brought down the FTAA (of George Bush Jr.) and consolidate regional integration. “This is not about resistance, but about action,” the researcher urged.

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