The Nuestra America Conference, Bogotá, 2026 - and why Latin American sovereignty affects us all
2026 began with Venezuela’s president and wife were arrested in the middle of the night and imprisoned in New York. Before that, US bombs had targeted civilian shipping crafts. Right now, the Trump administration is still considering naval blockades in order to halt imports at the intended detriment to the already struggling Cuban economy. As I write this, Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro has recently returned from a meeting in the U.S with Donald Trump. [ https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=822211454204514 ] In response, global socialist coalition Progressive International (‘La Internacional Progresista’) called an emergency conference in Colombia’s capital city Bogota. Its name, Nuestra America, plucked from the pages of Cuban writer Jose Martí’s essay of the same name, thanks to its relevance in today’s political climate. Martí’s essay endorses the union of ‘the pueblos’ (both the towns, and the people) in the face of the threat of American ...