Being a candidate, and even worse, being president in sexist countries like the Americas, is a risk and almost a sin. As is being a non-white president in the United States or Latin America.
This is because European women invented or popularized racism, because the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors preferred indigenous women from the Americas. For centuries, orgasm in European women, as well as showing their bodies, was considered sinful. Joan of Arc, the woman who freed the French from English rule and ended the Hundred Years' War, was burned at the stake, accused of having felt pleasure while being raped and tortured in prison. This view of the female orgasm as a sin and the female body as a demonic temptation, since the Middle Ages, made frigidity a part of European culture and has now turned European women, especially those in colder Europe like the Nordic countries or Russia, into those who have to deal with the alcoholic impotence of their men. While alcohol increases desire, it decreases performance, which is serious for women who take a long time to warm up and reach orgasm or suffer from frigidity.
For the Spanish, Portuguese, and French conquistadors, the sight of semi-naked women, who easily reached orgasm and could even experience repeated orgasms, turned them into unbridled macho men who fathered or abandoned children throughout the New World. This was the origin of miscegenation in the Americas and racism in Europe. When Queen Victoria of England came to power, she made racism a state policy, forcing white English subjects to live in cities or neighborhoods where the locals couldn't live under the same conditions as the English; at most, they lived in those areas as laborers, slaves, or servants, and interracial marriage was unacceptable.
Christian religions also fostered racism, especially Protestant religions, and Catholicism, especially in America, where only priests say mass or confess, as Pope Francis mentioned, who did something to overcome this dogma. Racism and sexism have become part of electoral campaigns and political life in the Americas, starting with the United States, where racist white Republicans now hold power, in revenge against the Democrats who installed President Obama, the first Black president of the United States, or US presidential candidate Kamala Harris, an American of Caribbean and Indian parents, and, worse still, AOC, Alexandra Ocacio Cortez, who has become Donald Trump's worst political enemy.
Today, mass protests are calling for the departure and end of the Trump administration. AOC, the Hispanic senator from New York who supports and accompanies Bernie Sanders, is leading the protests. At a time when American racism, especially against Latinos, has escalated into mass deportations, persecution, and even human hunting. AOC is the daring woman risking her life against the Nero of America, Donald Trump. leading protests and rallying millions of Americans who want to expel Trump from the White House.
Meanwhile, in Ecuador, the country that was the spoils of Daniel Noboa, his family, and Trump, it has once again become a Banana Republic, a derogatory term used in the 20th century to refer to banana-exporting Latin American countries, which lived under the control of dynasties, dictatorships, and families who, since the wars of independence from Spain, had turned entire countries into their property, so they could freely use their wealth, work, and the lives of their inhabitants to live in opulence, increasing poverty. With AOC Alexandra Ocacio Cortez, the idea of a continent without borders, without tariffs, without deportations, without racial discrimination, without walls, like the one between Mexico and the United States, without machismo, like the one experienced in Ecuador, where Luisa González has been defeated by a sexist, millionaire, vain man like Trump, who has turned him into his henchman, his puppet, his clown, seems possible.
It is about building a continent where all the countries of the world can trade, where nature is respected and protected, as well as cultural, gender, generational, and racial diversity. A continent where the 21st century, with all its technology, science, and progress, shows the rest of the planet that peace between humans and with nature is possible. A place where work, life, social organization, knowledge, information, participation, creativity, opportunities, and possibilities go from being privileges or commodities to rights and experiences, better times for the majority of humans and species on the planet.
