Elections in the capitalist countries of the Americas, starting with the United States, have become the spoils of our countries' millionaires, as demonstrated by the elections in the United States and now in Ecuador. In these countries, money rules, and human beings are at the service of the market; nature and everything that exists are a commodity.
For a century, these were the elections in Colombia, or the elections in Mexico, through the so-called perpetual dictatorship of the PRI, the Institutionalist Revolutionary Party, or the dictatorship of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua, or the Stroessner dynasty in Paraguay, or dictatorships.
Today, as the right is returning to govern Europe, the monarchies that still exist have become the decorative element of those countries, while the governments that for a time were in the hands of the so-called citizens, many of whom still call themselves subjects, sell their consciences and their votes to the highest bidder, whoever can offer them the freedom to stop being poor and the great possibility of the so-called American dream: that is, to become rich in record time. Countries have become gambling tables, where leaders, especially those with money, power, or fame, play poker, as Donald Trump repeatedly says, using cards in his speeches and conversations.
We have been convinced that the rich are the smartest, the most capable, the happiest, and those who have the right to power, that is, those who no longer want to control only what belongs to them, but also what belongs to others. That is, the lives of the inhabitants of a country, the wealth of that country, and if possible, the lives of the inhabitants of other countries, their wealth, their minds, and even what lies beyond the planet.
We are experiencing a runaway race to concentrate as much wealth and power as possible, today when new technologies allow humans to become one large family, or a borderless human mass, able to interconnect, meet, and interact thanks to the internet, scientific advances, discoveries, and inventions. These inventions no longer come only from developed countries, but also from children everywhere, who can participate, create, invent, and express their opinions.
But this unequal concentration of money, power, and knowledge is generating a population explosion, social protests, and a climate crisis, which is dramatic and violent everywhere, but especially in poor countries. This is turning the inhabitants of these countries, or of countries in conflict, into migrants, pirates, drug traffickers, and ultimately, invaders. This is because poverty ceased to be a lack of food or shelter and became ignorance, a lack of opportunities, a lack of resources, at a time when machines learn and displace humans, and humans have spent years studying and are learning continuously.
The poor of today are like the middle class of the last century, because in the last century, the poor didn't have schools, colleges, or universities, or free healthcare.
But since Donald Trump came to power in the United States, Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and the Jewish-Palestinian War, the planet has entered a new cycle of global wars, like those fought around the world to stop being European colonies since the 19th century, the First and Second World Wars between industrialized countries, and now. The trade war, the war on new forms of energy that use nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons, and electromagnetic weapons, the space war, where satellites, GPS, robotic ships and weapons, drones, and even tariffs have become instruments of war, because they fracture 500 years of globalization and global trade. Ecuador, like other Third World countries, has entered a state of collapse. Like Latin American countries, it is now the birthplace of migrants and invaders, of drug traffickers, hitmen, and extortionists, just as the Nordic countries were once the birthplace of the Vikings; Russia, of the Cossacks; Mongolia, of the Mongols; the Iberian countries, of the conquerors of the Americas and Oceania; England, Holland, and France, which were the birthplace of pirates and slave traffickers; Germany, of the Nazis; Italy, of the Fascists; and, along with the Nordic countries of Europe, were the birthplace of the so-called settlers, murderers of the indigenous people of North America or of black people in Africa, the birthplace of mercenaries who tormented Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Today, the rich in our countries, like President-elect Daniel Noboa, plunder their country's resources and control the lives of millions of human beings, just as millionaires in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and Wall Street do. He imposes laws on us, imposes foreign military bases, and subjects us to the whims, fancies, deportations, tariffs, and violence of Donald Trump, his puppeteer and master.
