“Resuming the Forum’s face-to-face meetings here in Brasilia also crowns this process of peoples’ struggles and some alteration in the correlation of forces and electoral victories in Latin America,” adds Valente. The different branches of the São Paulo Forum are currently united around the defense of national sovereignty. The fight against the far-right and against policies such as neoliberalism are some of the event’s agendas. President Lula’s parade during the first act of his inauguration, on JanuPhoto: Ricardo Stuckert
So, Lula’s election crowns this process that has been going on for the last three, four years,” she summarizes. In Colombia, for the first time, a historic pact, a left-wing coalition similar to ours here in Brazil, which also won the elections. In Bolivia, we managed to defeat the coup and elect President Luis Arce. “In addition to Mexico, which came into the progressive camp for the first time in 2018, we resumed government in Argentina, with Alberto Fernández.
She highlights the situation of countries neighboring Brazil. The event’s executive secretary, Mônica Valente, draws attention to the succession of political facts that preceded this year’s edition and helped shape the Forum’s return. Lula is one of the founders of the platform and was one of the highlights of the event’s program on Thursday. The event is a historic space for dialogue between leftist forces from different corners of the world and is reborn amid the recent rise of progressive leaders in Latin America, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. After a four-year break due to the pandemic, the São Paulo Forum returned to its activities on June 29, in Brasília, the federal capital of Brazil, where more than 700 participants who signed up to follow the program will meet.
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