The third Continental Meeting of social, indigenous, peasant and media organizations of Abya Yala is being held in Guatemala, where delegates from several countries are meeting to build a ‘common horizon’. teleSUR
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00:00The third meeting of ABI-AYALA is taking place in Guatemala with deep reflections of the advances and setbacks of popular movements and social organizations in our continent.
00:10Our correspondent Santiago Boton has more details.
00:19Delegates from several countries are meeting to build a common horizon.
00:22This is the third continental meeting of ABI-AYALA Soberana taking place in the municipality of Santiago Zacatepeque, Guatemala.
00:31We are here to come to reflect and deepen our processes of struggle in the territories, but also to where we are going.
00:37We have reflected about it every year.
00:41The third meeting also addresses self-criticism, emphasizing that the left bears some responsibility for its support for the election of right-wing governments that implement the imperialist plan, as happened in many cases in Peru.
00:53Pedro Pablo Kaczynski, a government of the right, and the left said, we must support the lesser evil.
01:04And that is why I say the left also has responsibility for having led governments and it is still the same as always.
01:12And sometimes we also question some leftist projects, for example Chile.
01:17It entered as a government of the left, but it is clearly right-wing.
01:21What is alarming is that there are also social and leftist movements financed by the imperialist corporation to install an opposition to the same oppression they promote in the world, according to a Puerto Rican sociologist.
01:38It is a perverse thing because what they want is to produce a domesticated left, a left that is controlled by them, that doesn't get out of hand, a left that is not anti-imperialist.
01:52So that is why they finance feminists from the USAID, the embassy, from NGOs, from foundations.
02:00The CIA channels money to strengthen the domesticated opposition that they want.
02:05In this sense, the social and indigenous organizations of Avia y a la Soberana consider it imperative to deepen the decolonization of the people's thinking in order to advance in the horizon of good living.