Self-Proclaimed Largest Conservative Event in Latin America Held by Pro-Marijuana Group
By Julio
Severo
“On July 28, the largest meeting of the
Latin American right in history will take place in the city of Foz do Iguaçu, PR,
Brazil: the Conservative Summit of the Americas will bring together political
leaders from the right of different Latin American nations and the U.S. The
meeting is being organized by federal representatives Eduardo Bolsonaro and
Fernando Franscischini,” said a Brazilian right-wing website.
“The legalization of possession,
distribution and sale of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes could
solve several Brazilian public problems, such as prison overcrowding, the
existence of complex and very profitable trafficking schemes, reduction of
crime rates and reduction of deaths caused by trafficking and overdose by the
use of more toxic substances,” argues Indigo Foundation, which holds the
Conservative Summit of the Americas.
When you think of drug legalization, one
of the big names coming to your mind is George Soros, a left-wing billionaire
engaged in several anti-conservative fronts to liberalize drugs. But, in a
turnabout reminiscent of George Orwell, a self-proclaimed conservative
conference is being held by an entity equally engaged in the effort to
liberalize drugs.
It
is not known if Soros is somehow behind the Conservative Summit of the
Americas, but the fact is that this event inaugurates the first conservatism moved
by a pro-marijuana group in Brazilian history.
If the Conservative Summit is the “face”
of the Brazilian right, then this right leans more to the left than the facade
of its propaganda.
The
international public often does not understand Brazilian “conservatism.” For
example, Marina Silva, who was a candidate for president of Brazil in the past
election, was portrayed in the American press as “conservative,” although she
has no activism against abortion and against the gay agenda. She was
interpreted as conservative merely because most Brazilian evangelicals are
conservative and because she is also an evangelical of the Assemblies of God,
but many did not notice that she came from Catholicism and never left
liberation theology from her Catholic origins. I was one of the only Brazilian
conservatives to denounce in English that she is not conservative, but leftist.
The Indigo Foundation is linked to PSL,
the Brazilian party of one of the speakers, Jair Bolsonaro, who is a candidate
for president and is using all possible platforms to propagandize his
candidacy. Another PSL member, Luciano Bivar, supports legalizing abortion and
euthanasia. So it is very strange and bizarre for a political party with a
pro-abortion politician to hold a supposed biggest conservative conference in
the history of Latin America.
The
speakers for the Summit are: Paulo Guede (Brazil), Carlos Gomez (Chile),
Francisco Javier Leturia Infante (Chile), General Augusto Heleno Pereira
(Brazil), Diego Pessi (Brazil), Olavo de Carvalho(Brazil), Prince Luiz Philippe
de Orleans and Bragança (Brazil), Roderick Navarro (Venezuela) and Jair
Bolsonaro (Brazil).
From the U.S, the speaker is Orlando
Gutierrez-Boronat, who is not a famous leader neither in the U.S. nor in
Brazil.
Essentially, the Conservative Summit of
the Americas is a politicking event held by the Indigo Foundation and Eduardo,
son of Jair Bolsonaro, both extremely political.
The presence of Olavo
de Carvalho, the greatest propagandist of the Inquisition in Brazil, only happens
because he is greatly flattered by Bolsonaro and is suspected of being his
Rasputin. His presence would only be surprising in a genuinely conservative
event. But in a politicking and opportunistic event, his
supposed rightistism is very fitting.
Despite Bolsonaro’s efforts to magnify his
own conservative movement moved by a pro-marijuana group and flatter his
Rasputin with his false conservatism, “The Nation,” the oldest continuously
published weekly magazine in the United States since 1865, said
last year that the largest Brazil’s anti-Marxist conservative force are
evangelicals.
A supposed pro-Inquisition right-winger is
no less perplexing and contradictory than a supposedly conservative event by a
pro-marijuana political entity. Anyway, Carvalho is a heavy smoker and a
radical advocate of smoking.
Any conservative group promoting such an
event shows that politicking interests are above a genuine conservative agenda.
Portuguese version of this article: Autoproclamado
maior evento conservador da América Latina é realizado por grupo pró-maconha
Spanish version of this article: Autoproclamado gran evento conservador de América
Latina es realizado por grupo pro-marihuana
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