Lies that Obama wants to change his type of relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean.
Lie that there was a summit; it was a settling of scores and an ambush against the dignity of our nations and those that kneel, like in chapels that dishonor them.
Lie in which no proposals from our nations were discussed; everything was imposed by the United States, from the menus to drinks served and guayaberas used.
Lie not recognizing what Hannah Arendt said, that politics is a privileged place of lies; what’s more, for gringos, analyzing the theme of drugs from our approach was not acceptable; preferred was that of the nation that consumes the most drugs in the world.
Lie about the dimension of truth and the oft-mentioned democracy; there was no final document when everyone voted to invite Cuba to the next meeting and Obama vetoed it and vulgarly snatched it away.
Lie that they support our integration when the conditions for a FTA is that they impose and no one argues, and everyone either accepts or accepts.
Lie as a paradigm resulting in a better instrument to analyze and understand the political discourse and politics of the United States at this summit.
According to Plato, a liar is someone who is capable of lying. For Aristotle it is someone who violently chooses to exercise it: “Don’t discuss the theme of the Malvinas … that’s the end of it.”
Lies that fail to recognize the historical evidence that demonstrates intentional failure; over 30 years of failure of violent strategies to attack the management of drugs, and social and medical problems treated by henchmen.
Lie that Cartagena reached a sort of absolute status and an uncontrollable vocation in the empty language and phrasing of the summits: In other words, “Obama wants to forget the language of the past.”
Lie that imposes the judgment of witnesses, historians and diplomats in order to produce a perversion and to hide that the only truth is the political machine of Obama’s veto.
Lie that made the queen of the summit the infamy permitting Obama to deliberately say something different than what they truly know: that his blockade of Cuba has not achieved anything in 40 years and is just a shutter to confuse the listener.
The lie of the diplomacy of hand kissing and otherwise; it is the opposite of the animal that, according to Lacan, does not lie, can be used in tricks, pranks, but not to lie. Only someone who speaks and promises the truth and later refuses to even recognize discussing the theme of the Malvinas can lie. President Santos, who upon opening the summit promised to talk about Cuba, and Obama vetoed him.
Lie that doesn’t even recognize that it lies to itself when it lies. For example, Santos, when announcing the occasion of the summit, and to flatter Obama with the infamous Ley LLeras 2.0, which imposes censorship, vetoes and prison for those who copy the content of an MP3 or re-tweet from their Vergatorio (mobile phone). And whose initial article, according to the dramatic April 12 editorial in El Espectador of Bogotá, reads: “Remove the word Free from the Internet lexicon.”
Obama’s communiqués are contributions to the history of disgrace: the absence of a final political declaration; a lethargic study that will be launched by the Organization of American States on drugs; the mistakes of the Secret Service agents with prostitutes in the city; the streets closed in the center; Juan Valdez, who moved the traveling vendors from Torre del Reloj; the absence of Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa; the football tackle at the end of the match with Evo Morales; the ingenuity — who knows? — mixed with good intentions of the people of Turbaco who wanted to gift a donkey to Obama; and the crude final maneuver and his resolution to censure the media and his negotiation with the ALBA nations to sign for the exclusion of Cuba, plus the confirmation that in the end everything is an ideological, not economic, matter solved with crumbs.
Blatant lie that is reflected in the final photo of the presidents of the summit: an image that is touched up, manipulated or, simply, re-framed, selected, filtered, altered not by machines but by our conscience, which does NOT make mistakes, and knows what is watching and … smiles … with what the newspaper hides.
Well, Venezuelans do have a lot to be angry about. As for Cuba, if that country had something that the US wanted — like oil — you’d see its now meaningless 40-year grudge fall away like dust.