The intellectual Atilio Borón presented a book at Havana’s International Book Fair

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The political scientist Atilio Borón presented his book “Segundo Turno” at the 32nd Havana’s International Book Fair. The writer made a balance about the situation in Latin American since the victory of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. teleSUR

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00:00 Visiting Havana for the 32nd edition of the International Book Fair is Atilio Boron from Argentina.

00:05 He's called for a book about progressive governments in Latin America over the last 25 years.

00:10 Well, the book is a sort of x-ray of the political process which evolved in Latin America since the beginning of the century,

00:20 in which you can mark a period of rise of the progressive and central left governments in Latin America,

00:26 starting with the election of Hugo Chávez to the presidency.

00:30 Then there was a problem, was a setback with the election of Mauricio Macri in Argentina,

00:38 with the coup, institutional coup, institutional, okay, in some sense,

00:45 which hosted President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, the military coup,

00:51 or military, civilian military coup in Bolivia.

00:54 But then, after that interlude, there was a sort of renewal of the progressive forces in Latin America,

01:02 America starting with the victory of López Obrador in Mexico in July of 2018,

01:11 and then a series of victories, very, very important.

01:15 Lula came back to the government in Brazil.

01:18 Gustavo Petro, putting an end to 200 years of history in which not a single progressive government ever was in charge in Colombia,

01:29 and also the fantastic victory of Xiomara Castro in Honduras.

01:33 This means a sort of relaunching of the progressive cycle in Latin America,

01:40 and this is why we're studying the book.

01:41 The book is full of very interesting data we made with Paula Klatschko,

01:46 which is the co-author, it's not my book alone, I wrote the book with her,

01:52 and it's fantastic material to understand these last 25 years of Latin American history.

02:00 Matilde Borón also had a few words on the recent election of Javier Millet in Argentina and about the state of Israel.

02:07 Well, my opinion cannot be more negative.

02:12 Javier Millet is a fascist, is a reactionary, is a racist, and in addition,

02:19 he's a person which has a profound emotional disequilibrium, and you know,

02:26 he's a person who says he talks with his dead dog, the dog which died eight years ago.

02:36 And he, through some, I don't know, medium or what, he hears the voices of the dog,

02:43 recommending he develop some kind of economic policy.

02:47 So we are in the hands of a person which is out of his mind,

02:51 and of course, this has not only a very negative impact in Argentina,

02:57 but also a negative impact regionally, because he's against UNASUR,

03:01 against the LAC, against Latin American integration, he's fighting Maduro,

03:07 fighting Díaz-Canel, fighting Cholmara, so he's isolating Argentina,

03:12 and trying to make of Argentina a colony of the United States,

03:17 totally aligned with the policies of Washington, and even worse,

03:21 with the policies of the Israeli state, which is the most genocidal state of recent times.

03:29 So this is our situation, but we hope, we hope that there will be, sooner than later,

03:35 a popular reaction which will put an end to this really obnoxious experiment.

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