By: Omar Silva I Editor/Publisher

National Perspective Belize – Digital 2025

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Belize City: Saturday 26th April 2025

MEXICO CITY, April 2025 — In a powerful and uncompromising message to the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum delivered a clarion call for continental unity against what she described as the enduring threat of imperialism.

Speaking from a place of historical memory and contemporary urgency, Sheinbaum denounced the long history of U.S. interventions across Indoamerica — a term she used to affirm the region’s indigenous and collective identity — and urged the peoples of the continent not to be divided by external forces.

"Why does imperialism want to see us divided?" Sheinbaum asked rhetorically. "Because it knows that together we are invincible."

She recounted a litany of historical grievances: from the CIA-backed coup against Salvador Allende in Chile, to the U.S. arming of the Contras in Nicaragua, to the economic warfare against Venezuela, and the "lawfare" against Brazil’s Lula da Silva. She condemned the 2019 coup in Bolivia, the enduring blockade against Cuba, and what she sees as a continued U.S. effort to militarize, privatize, and plunder the region under new guises.

"Every open wound in a country is an attack on all," she declared, emphasizing that imperialism fears not isolated governments but united peoples. She warned that treaties privatizing water, health, and education, along with manipulated media narratives, are designed to divide and conquer the region.

Unity as the Response to Division

President Sheinbaum painted a vivid portrait of "The Great Homeland" — a vision of Latin America as a single, borderless community of struggle, dignity, and shared dreams. She invoked the spirits of Túpac Amaru, Simón Bolívar, José Martí, and Che Guevara, calling for an unbreakable solidarity that transcends national boundaries, languages, and ethnicities.

"The Great Homeland is not a utopia," she affirmed. "It is the heartbeat of our history, the living memory of those who fought to see us free."

In her impassioned speech, Sheinbaum made the case for building political, economic, and cultural sovereignty. She advocated for:

• Economic integration independent of the U.S. dollar.
• Agricultural self-sufficiency without dependence on agrochemical giants.
• Education based on liberating, critical pedagogies.
• Protection of shared natural resources like the Amazon rainforest.

A Generation with a Historic Mission

"We are the generation that can make the dream of San Martín and Manuelita Sáenz a reality," Sheinbaum declared. She urged Latin Americans not to wait for salvation from outside forces but to become the builders of their own liberation — with education, organization, and solidarity as their primary weapons.

She called for the revitalization of regional bodies like UNASUR, ALBA, and CELAC, and the creation of people's assemblies, independent communication networks, regional currencies, and new armies — not of soldiers, but of teachers and artists.

In her closing words, Sheinbaum did not mince words about the stakes: "While Wall Street speculates, our people starve. While Hollywood sells us false idols, they bury our identities." But she offered hope rooted in collective action: "In our unity lies strength, and in our struggle, freedom."

The President's message echoes through a region still grappling with inequality, foreign influence, and the search for a new, sovereign future. Whether her call will ignite the spirit of continental solidarity she envisions remains to be seen — but her words have set a bold tone for the battles ahead.

Long live a united Latin America! Until victory always!