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\nThe elections of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico, Gabriel Boric in Chile, Jose Pedro Castillo in Peru, and Gustavo Petro in Colombia, as well as the potential for the election of Lula da Silva in Brazil are being considered as a “second progressive wave.<\/a>”<\/p>\n \nIt is compared to a “first progressive wave” from 2008 to 2016 when Latin leaders included Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Luz Ignacio Lula da Silva in Brazil, Nestor Kirchner in Argentina, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and Evo Morales in Bolivia.<\/p>\n \nDuring the earlier wave, CELAC, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, issued a declaration <\/a> proclaiming their region as a “zone of peace.” One of the points in their declaration was “The promotion in the region of a culture of peace based, inter alia, on the principles of the United Nations Declaration on a Culture of Peace.”<\/p>\n \nThe culture of peace figues strongly in the new wave.<\/p>\n \nIn Colombia, “the government has considered implementing a \u201cPact for Total Peace<\/a>\u201d that includes not only the implementation of the existing agreement and the creation of others with other illegal armed agents, but it goes beyond the end of the conflict in the territories.”<\/p>\n \nThe victory of the left in Colombia and the potential normalization of relations between Colombia and Venezuela promises to bring renewed peace <\/a> to that Latin American region.<\/p>\n \nAlso in Colombia, the City of Medellin involved more than 1300 young people in the Week for Disarmament<\/a>, “to consolidate a culture of peace and Non-Violence in the city of Medell\u00edn.”<\/p>\n \nIn Honduras, newly-elected President Xiomara Castro is instituting \u201cMesas de seguridad ciudadana<\/a>\u201d within the framework of the Community Police in 298 municipalities. She explains that \u201cI want to promote a culture of peace and citizen participation in our country with preventive actions, establishing bonds of trust and proximity between the Police and the community.”<\/p>\n \nIn Mexico, “the Government of Jalisco has begun work on its first \u201cState Culture of Peace Program<\/a>\u201d, one of the main instruments derived from the state\u2019s Culture of Peace Law, designed to reduce the various forms of violence that occur there.<\/p>\n \nAlso in Mexico, 10 cities in the Yucatan have signed agreements<\/a> to “to coordinate efforts to strengthen the culture of peace “.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \nIn Chile, the new Constitution <\/a> promises to transform the country “from a ‘democratic republic’ to a ‘parity democracy’. . . (so) . . . that women occupy at least 50% of all State bodies,” and “proposes to take measures to achieve substantive equality and parity.”<\/p>\n \nIn Bolivia, this year has been declared the “Year of the Cultural Revolution for De-patriarchalization <\/a>, seeking to establish structural solutions to curb the persistent cases of violence against women in the country.”<\/p>\n \nIn the Dominican Republic, “the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP) and the National Conflict Resolution System (Sinarec) have signed an agreement <\/a> to promote a culture of peace at the national level through workshops, courses, seminars and other forms of education.”<\/p>\n \nThe first progressive wave was suppressed by North American imperialism <\/a> in collaboration with right-wing forces in Brazil and Bolivia and attacked by economic sanctions and in some cases military threats against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicarague. <\/p>\n \nWill the new wave be able to resist these pressures?<\/p>\n \nIn Brazil, where one of its candidates was recently assassinated, the Workers Party of Lula is resisting explicitly by way of the culture of peace, offering a workship on \u201cCulture of Peace and Militant Self-protection<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n \nAmong his campaign promises Lula says he will “defend the integration of South America, Latin America and the Caribbean<\/a>, with a view to maintaining regional security and promoting development, based on productive complementarity.” Earlier, he promised to create “a pan-Latin American currency,<\/a> in order to be freed of the dollar.”<\/p>\n \nBrazil is already a member of the BRICS alignment which promises freedom from domination by the dollar, and most recently Argentina has asked to join<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nIn Mexico, the government of Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador has proposed <\/a> to replace the Organization of American States which is dominated by the United States with an organization that is independent like CELAC.<\/p>\n \nReferring to the two progressive waves, Evo Morales says<\/a>, “\u201cThose times are returning, We need to again consolidate these democratic revolutions for the good of humanity. I have a lot of hope. In politics we must ask ourselves: are we with the people or are we with the empire?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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