The crisis facing imperialist domination by the United States and its allies will not be resolved by opening new theaters of war or by attempting to impose a heightened neocolonial order on the peoples of the world. The decline of US power is undeniable, as emerging powers leave it behind in fields such as production, trade, technology, and the military; therefore, the tariff war launched by Trump has remained limited in scope. And for this very reason, the American power resembles an aggressive giant with “feet of clay,” relentlessly attacking the Palestinian people and now declaring war on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
When capitalism as a system entered into crisis, it invented neoliberal globalization, which, after decades of application, leaves the planet devastated and billions of people impoverished and excluded, allowing a few super-rich to become even richer. A planetary crisis that is being resisted in multiple struggles and in every corner of the world, with rebellions facing extinction, to which this system of death drags us. In its attempt to stifle resistance and rebellions, the empire launches wars in all directions, which may have a fate similar to the publicized tariff war.
On our continent, the imperialist plan imposes regimes of hunger and repression in Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay, and Peru, while most nations seek their own path, contrary to US neocolonial domination. Meanwhile, in Colombia, the internal conflict follows the empire’s plan to keep us in an eternal war, with which it attempts to overwhelm the search for peace with social justice.
Today, as the old regime strives to prevent reforms that benefit the population and threatens to intensify repression against social protest and those of us who propose national proposals that serve the majority, it is imperative to call on society to formulate and commit to the structural changes that must lift Colombia out of the centuries-old crisis it has endured. This is a path to a political solution to the conflict, one that is distinct from the neocolonial order that Trump is determined to maintain and consolidate.