Foro Madrid and the role of Vox and the PP in the opposition to socialism in Ibero-America

Yesterday, the first day of the third regional meeting of the Madrid Forum, entitled "Río de La Plata 2024", took place in the capital of Argentina.

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Foro Madrid is an important meeting point for conservatives in Latin America (the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries of the New Continent), which was created in 2020 by the Disenso Foundation, an entity promoted by Vox, the third most voted party in Spain. I say this for readers from other countries who read this blog and also for many Spanish readers who may not know about this initiative, due to the silence of many media outlets about all the good things that Vox does (which are many).

The full video of the first day of that meeting can be seen here (Santiago Abascal's speech starts at point 29:18 and Javier Milei's speech starts at point 47:47):

The second day's broadcast can be followed on this video player this Friday from 2:00 p.m. Madrid time and 9:00 a.m. Buenos Aires time:

At this new meeting of the Madrid Forum, we were able to observe, first of all, the important role that Santiago Abascal, leader of Vox, has among the opposition to socialism in Latin America. This is a role that has not fallen from the sky: it is the fruit of a strenuous effort of four years to unite this opposition and offer a counterweight to the activity of the groups that bring together the left and the extreme left in that part of the world, especially the São Paulo Forum (promoted by the Brazilian ultra-leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) and the Puebla Group (created in 2019 in Mexico).

Secondly, this meeting has highlighted Argentina's growing role as a bastion of Freedom in Latin America thanks to Javier Milei, a brave man who once again displayed his friendship with Abascal. A friendship that was born years ago and which was reflected, let us not forget, in the fact that Vox was the only Spanish party that supported the current president of Argentina when he was a candidate. It was one of Vox's great successes in international politics, thanks to which today, finally, socialism faces the opposition of an increasingly relevant international group, as demonstrated by the recent resistance in Latin America to the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.

At this point it's my turn to talk about the role of the Popular Party (PP), the most voted party in Spain, in Latin America. Its role could be summarized in this video recorded during the visit of the Colombian communist Gustavo Petro to Spain, during which the Vox deputies left the Congress chamber in protest against Petro's insults to Spain and in rejection of his status as an unrepentant terrorist. What did the PP do? Stand up and applaud Petro:

Facts like this explain the role of the PP in Latin America today: none. It has become an irrelevant party in a cultural community linked to Spain by its history and its language, in which the PP has been guided by the same lukewarmness and the same desire to remain in the background as in Spain, where it has become the facilitator for the socialists to assault the Judiciary and other institutions. At least we can breathe a sigh of relief that the PP is irrelevant today on the other side of the Atlantic, seeing the favors it does for socialism in Spain.

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Photo: Reuters.