[Marxism] A financial Ayacucho

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

On December 9, 1825, an army where you could find Spanish Americans
from every corner of the Southern Main defeated the armies of Borbonic
absolutism at the battle of Ayacucho. Led by Bolívar's second,
Francisco José de Sucre, this was the highest point of our
Emancipation Wars. Whatever was won on the battlefields was
subsequently lost in the political intrigues.

For almost "TWO hundred years of solitude", the splinters of the great
project were rent asunder into "nations".

But they are coallescing now. On a most moving chronicle of the
events, the Argentinean journalist and economist Hugo Presman, another
veteran comrade of the Izquierda Nacional, has depicted on the
Reconquista Popular mailing list what has been taking place in Buenos
Aires yesterday and today. The article, called "The TV set of the
dreams", displays exactly what any comrade of the Izquierda Nacional
can feel when one sees those dreams we were fighting for during long
decades become true. Not by our hands, as yet, but they become true.

Yesterday, on the Ayacucho anniversary, we could see how seven
Presidents who sum up most of the population, GDP and area of South
America have launched what will become the launching pad of what will
be the Financial Ayacucho in Latin America, the Banco del Sur.

The speeches, particularly the speech by Hugo Chávez, sounded as if
Jorge Abelardo Ramos himself was speaking. And after the Banco del Sur
will soon come the unified currency of the Southern Community of
Nations, the first step towards which is under way with the
preparations for the ellimination of the US dollar in Arg-Bra trade.

On 1972, the Izquierda Nacional groups tied around Ramos tried to
generate a Front of National Left that appealed to the vast masses of
the population. The project failed on the political ground. But it
left a program of sixty measures behind it.

Measure 57 declared that the "Government of the Front" will work to
establish as soon as possible a Bank of Latin America and a single
Latin American currency.

Allow me to say "Cheers", comrades. It is not us. It is not exactly
us. But someone has begun to do what has to be done.