In the context of the enthusiasm generated in various sectors by the figure of the libertarian Javier Milei, Argentina will become from this Thursday until next Saturday the headquarters of an unprecedented hemispheric summit of young people and right-wing political leaders, to which some European referents are even invited. This was unthinkable a few years ago.
The protagonists of the so-called First Pan-American Meeting of Young Politicians have already begun to arrive in Buenos Aires. The bet of the summit seeks to exhibit a cultural and political phenomenon against the so-called "progressives" and as a counterpart to the international left.
At the opening. that will take place in the Buenos Aires Legislature, a tribute will be held in tribute to the "victims of communism and socialism of the twentieth century" and "strategies against the advance of the left nucleated in the Forum of San Pablo and Puebla Group" will be debated, according to the program. Another topic of discussion will be "the generation of wealth and the obstacles of populism".
With a strong preaching against the Castro-Chavista dictatorships of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, the forum announced among its participants Rick Loughery, President of the Youth of the Republican Party (USA); Salma Agüero, appointed Minister of Youth under the elected President of Paraguay, Santiago Peña; and Carolina Rivera Añez, daughter of the former president of Bolivia Jeanine Añez, convicted and imprisoned for the crime of resolutions contrary to the constitution after the alleged coup attempt against the management of Evo Morales.
Also participating will be Francesco Di Giuseppe, vice-president of the Youth of the party of Georgia Meloni; Hungarian MEP Enikö Györi from Viktor Orban's party; Jair Bolsonaro's former foreign minister Ernesto Araujo; and Bolsonarist deputy Ana Campagnolo, among others.
Among the local speakers are expected the deputy Victoria Villarruel, candidate for vice president with Javier Milei; the influencer Eugenia Rolón, and leaders of Together for Change such as the general secretary of the City of Buenos Aires and confidant of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, Fernando Straface; former deputy Nicolás Massot, Francisco Sánchez and former ambassador Mariano Caucino.
The deputy and leader of the libertarians does not participate or sponsor the summit that, however, is done in the heat of his political growth in the face of the next presidential elections. For starters, the economist is traveling to Spain to give some lectures, they said in their space.
Enzo Nicolás Di Fabio, promoter with other young people of the Forum, told Clarín that "Buenos Aires was chosen for two reasons. First, because the event was going to be held in Bogotá and due to political pressures and persecutions it had to be suspended. At that time Gustavo Petro had been in power for two months." De Fabio said that two of the volunteers of this forum received death threats.
"On the other hand, Buenos Aires was the best place to reschedule the launch of the Network both because of its proximity to Brazil, and because of the political situation that allows us to think that Argentina in this election year will be the door of the region to dislodge leftist populism from power, generating a renewed spirit of change," Di Fabio defiantly promised that he is Argentine and works in an interbloc in Congress, which has nothing to do with the summit, organized by the Committee of the Pan American Forum of Young Politicians, composed of leaders of different organizations.
"People in general, and young people in particular, are tired of the progressive agenda that has entertained the political leadership and in which it does not solve any of the problems that really affect any neighbor's son," Fabio said.
In that sense, he said "we are aware that we must promote an agenda of common sense, which looks at the real problems of the people: structural poverty; transnational organized crime; the cultural battle; and something very unusual in right-wing leadership: political articulation. In that, the left and the Forum of São Paulo has given us a great lesson from the 90s to date."
Fabio referred to the accusations about belonging to the extreme right. "The Forum itself does not identify with any type of right, our vocation is not to use the "right-wing" to measure who is more liberal or more conserved. We are summoned by a concrete agenda: from concern for poverty, insecurity, respect for democracy and freedom, to the arrogance of gender dogma. That is why everyone is invited under the agreement that there will be no right-wing discussions but points of common action."
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