In a commentary published in the newspaper Página12, Victoria Donda, president of the Parlasur Human Rights Commission, emphasizes that these actions are against regional peace and contradict the consensus reached by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

She remembers that this regional mechanism “declared our region a territory of peace. Any unilateral action of a military nature, no matter how much justification is attempted, violates the principle of non-intervention and offends the dignity of the peoples.”

Donda enumerates that US foreign policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean combines, in a worrying and blatant manner, military, financial, and diplomatic pressure.

These strategies, she warns, far from being new, have found fertile ground in the region for imposing conditionalities, economic blockades, and, in extreme cases, armed interventions.

“We cannot fail to point out that military and financial interventionism are two sides of the same coin: the logic of subordination and dependence,” Donda, a lawyer by profession, warns.

This model, she cautions, seeks to condition development processes, generating political vulnerability, economic dependence, and, ultimately, a loss of sovereignty.

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