Mexico City THE second Meeting of the Movements and Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean took place in Mexico from June 12 to 15, 1991. Sixty eight organizations from 22 countries were represented, among them the Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) and the Lavalas organization from Haiti, the latter not present at the first meeting in Sao Paolo in 1990. There were also a dozen organizations from the USA, Canada and Europe present. Marco Antonio Velazquez, a member of the central committee of the Revolutionary Workers Party (PRT - Mexican section of the continent, and notably the problem of 'the disappeared"".
The meeting took a clearly anti-imperialist standpoint, a positive attitude in an international context where capitalist arrogance, militarism and imperial aggression encourage the idea that opposition is impossible so that anti-imperialism has been weakened. Happily there exist still those ready to oppose the warlords and neocolonialists. Above all, the meeting laid the foundations of a broad continental front that rejects the neo-liberal offensive in the economic domain and the neo-conservative offensive in the political sphere.
Obviously, behind the agreements reached at the meeting meetings, discussions and decisions.
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IRSTLY. the meeting issued a
IRSTLY, the meeting issued a number of solidarity declarations; with the Cuban revolution and in defence of its sovereignty against imperialist harassment; in defence there are a wide range of interpretations, analyses, viewpoints and political perspectives among the 68 organizations. Some are promoting a social democratic orientation - in agreement with the processes of "supervised democracy" underway. Other socialist currents are of the conquests of the Nicaraguan revolution; with the democratic and popular process in Haiti; with the struggle of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front of El Salvador; with the Revolutionary National Union of Guatemala and its proposals for peace with justice; and with the struggle for the withdrawal of US troops from Panama and the anti-colonial struggle in Puerto Rico.
The participants in the meeting also expressed their support for the Argentine claim to the Malvinas Islands and for the independence of Martinique and Guadeloupe; they unanimously rejected: "all the measures to give impunity in Latin Amer18 ica to those guilty of the crimes of militarism and human rights violations on our
### Renewal of vision
The relation of forces on the world scale, which is at present favourable to international capitalism, requires of international and Latin American socialism that it review its theoretical vision; the fall of the Berlin wall and the implosion of the bureaucratized societies in the East have also meant the collapse of the old paradigms which sustained a considerable proportion of the left.
However there is a risk that the baby will be thrown out with the bathwater. Some organizations feel that "modernizing" and getting rid of dogmatism means throwing into the dustbin of history the whole theoretical and political baggage of the revolutionary experience. Some
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