Shameful is a mild term to describe the embarrassment that Donald Trump imposed on the president of South Africa during a recent visit to the White House. He used lies and distortions of reality, which were rejected by the visitor himself and, later, by the country's press in the North.
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It is a new chapter in an old formula. With the political, economic and military weight on their shoulders, US leaders establish their strategic objectives, which are movements in the international political arena to respond to the country's internal demands, and construct arguments to justify them. Not necessarily in that order.
No US radar, the Three Borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay are entangled in a game of “witch hunt” to keep an external enemy active and dangerous to the purposes of the nation that is, by force, destined to save democracy and good values in the world. In the case of the border, accusations without proof are valid.
Report by H2FOZ went deep to uncover what involves the US embassy's offer of US$10 million as a reward for information about a possible financial mechanism for Hezbollah's operations in the region. Despite the amount of money, no evidence was presented of the practice that it is alleged that it is intended to prevent.
University professor and international analyst Mamadou Alpha Diallo believes that the fact that there is a large Arab community in the border area, which is active in commerce, is used to confuse people. “The remittance of money is naturally a consequence of immigration,” since the community maintains ties, as would be expected, with family members in their country of origin.
For the professor, rehashing the issue, which has already been used on several other occasions against the Three Borders, is a mechanism for the President of the United States to communicate. “Trump makes many decisions and acts every day, and journalists can’t keep up,” he points out – a strategy to focus on some issues while taking others out of focus. This is disinformation.
In the current chess game, the foreign policy of the United States narrows the scope of action with the governments of Argentina and Paraguay. The topics of interest range from Taiwan, in relation to China, to suspicions, much to Israel's liking, of cases of terrorism in the region, including natural resources and infrastructure.
The rhetoric may even advance, given the power of the mechanisms that engender it. What cannot be taken away is the truth that the peoples live in harmony in the trinational region. By example, they remind the world that it is possible to build ties and integrated communities, and that peace and dialogue must prevail over brutality and belligerent rage.
