Podemos Latin America and the rise of progressivism in the region

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The candidacy of ethnic minorities, feminism and the environmental struggle prevails in the Petro-Francia Márquez formula of the Historical Pact in Colombia. For Podemos in Latin America, the announcement by the Historical Pact of the election of the environmental, feminist and Afro-descendant activist, Francia Márquez, as Vice Presidential formula to accompany Gustavo Petro in the upcoming Presidential elections on May , represents the confirmation of the strength and rise of social movements and citizens in the governance proposals of the Left in Latin America. After the revolutionary composition of Gabriel Boric's government in Chile , with women out of a total of ministerial appointments.

A total generational renewal (average of years) headed by himself, as the youngest president of the continent, or the still recent ascension to the Presidency of Xiomara Castro in Honduras, there is Cabo Verde Email List now a new change to the traditional profile of the progressive parties with the appointment of Francia Márquez. For the Podemos Network in Latin America, this plural and renewed coalition of the left in alliance with leaders of social movements, is the result of the process of social and popular contestation in the streets, converted into the massive insurrection of the National Strike last April , regarding the prolonged and current far-right regime. Said Uribista government has imposed terror and growing poverty and inequality in a country with immense wealth, always coveted by transnational corporations and Western economic powers.



For this reason and, despite the numerous forms of coup practiced by the forces of the ruling right, such as clear attempts at electoral fraud, spread of the so-called "economic panic", withdrawal of the Guarantees Law to finance related authorities in the Campaign, massacres and threats against opposition leaders and candidates, an advertising monopoly in the media and propaganda with opaque financing, etc., the triumph of the candidacy of the Historical Pact that brings together the five parties of the Colombian left and the figures of Petro and F. Márquez doubling the votes to The addition of the other two coalitions of the center-right and extreme right predicts, for Podemos Abroad, the majority that the “Pact for Life” needs to win in the Presidential elections in the first round.