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Kamala Harris and Latin America

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Since July 21, with Joseph Biden's withdrawal from the candidacy for the next elections and the emergence of Kamala Harris, the world seems to have taken a turn that is expected to favor immigration reform and prioritize the well-being of the working class. 

The chances of defeating the predatory and ruffianist obscurantism led by Donald Trump and his national and international partners are growing.  

In just a few days, a good daughter from Oakland, with a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, has managed to put the despicable scoundrel and his sponsors, including Silicon Valley theorists and financiers who were already celebrating the upcoming establishment of a techno-monarchy, which would allow them to continue with the privatization of interstellar space and life on the planet, on the ropes. 

This is an excellent time for a charismatic woman, seasoned in public service and the fight against predation like Kamala, to push forward and resume the dismantling of the Monroe Doctrine initiated by Barack Obama and which allowed the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba.  

The setbacks have been greater and Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz will have to build a new relationship that goes beyond the stigmatization of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, and the representation of Latin America as a source of drug traffickers and undocumented workers. 

The Latin vote is strategic and it would be desirable to break the monopoly that anti-Castro and anti-Chavez have had until now in the design of foreign policy towards Latin America. Perhaps this would give more credibility to Cesar Chavez's "Yes we can" taken up by Obama and now converted into the "Yes We Can" of those who optimistically work for the electoral defeat of the Trumpism and its regressive agenda.

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Ramon Gonzalez Ponciano
Ramon Gonzalez Ponciano
Guatemalan-Mexican. PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and master's degree in the same discipline from Stanford University, where he has also been Tinker Professor, visiting researcher and affiliated researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies. He was visiting professor of the Education Abroad Program of the University of California in Mexico and collaborates as a guest lecturer in the Spanish Heritage, Continuing Studies programs and in the department of Spanish teaching at Stanford.
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