Foro de São Paulo
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Foro de São Paulo (FSP, São Paulo Forum) is a conference of left-wing political parties, idealized by Presidents Fidel Castro of Cuba and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil located in Latin America. It initiated by the Workers' Party (PT) of Brazil.
According to FSP founders the Forum of São Paulo was constituted in 1990 when Brazilian Workers' Party approached other parties of Latin America and the Caribbean with the objective of debating the new international conjuncture after falling of the Berlin Wall and the consequences of the implemntation of neoliberal politics for the majority of the governments of the region.
FSP leaders say the main proposal was to argue for a popular and democratic alternative to the neoliberalism, that was entering in the phase of ample world-wide implementation.
The first meeting was in the city of São Paulo, 1990 July, with the participation of 48 parties and organizations from the Latin American continent and the Caribbean. In 1991, in Mexico City (Mexico), the meeting was named Foro de São Paulo. The next meetings were in Managua (1992), Havana (1993), Montevideo (1995), San Salvador (1996), Porto Alegre (1997), Mexico (1998), Managua (2000), Havana (2001), Antigua Guatemala (2002), Quito (2003), São Paulo (2005).
[edit] Noteworthy participants
- Argentina - Communist Party of Argentina
- Barbados - Clement Payne Movement
- Bolivia - Communist Party of Bolivia
- Brazil - Workers' Party, Communist Party of Brazil
- Chile - Communist Party of Chile, Socialist Party of Chile
- Colombia - Colombian Communist Party, National Liberation Army, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- Costa Rica - Costa Rican Peoples Party
- Cuba - Communist Party of Cuba
- Dominica - Dominica Labour Party
- Dominican Republic - Dominican Liberation Party
- El Salvador - Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
- Guatemala - Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity
- Guyana - Working People's Alliance
- Mexico - Party of Labor, Popular Socialist Party
- Nicaragua - Sandinista National Liberation Front
- Paraguay - Paraguayan Communist Party, Free Homeland Party
- Peru - Peruvian Communist Party, Socialist Party of Peru
- Puerto Rico - Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Socialist Front [1], Hostosian National Independence Movement, University Pro-Independence Federation of Puerto Rico [2]
- Uruguay - Broad Front, Communist Party of Uruguay, Socialist Party of Uruguay, Tupamaros
- Venezuela - Communist Party of Venezuela
[edit] Criticism
According to right-wing thinkers, such as Brazilian philosopher and essayist Olavo de Carvalho, the activities of the FSP amount to a continent-wide conspiracy to override national sovereignity, destroy democracy, and implement communism all over Latin America. Carvalho and the other writers of his online newspaper, Mídia Sem Máscara [3] frequently stress the fact that several of FSP's members are, as they put it, "drug traffickers, terrorists, kidnappers".
[edit] External links
- Foro de São Paulo
- Workers' Party - PT
- DECLARACIÓN FINAL DEL X ENCUENTRO DEL FORO DE SAO PAULO
- Luis Inacio Lula da Silva speech at the opening of Foro de São Paulo in Havana (Fundação Perseu Abrano website)
- Declaração da reunião do Grupo de Trabalho do FSP(Declaration of the Foro de São Paulo Meeting),Workers' Party-PT website
- PT message to the Equatorian parties of the Foro de São Paulo, Workers' Party-PT website
- XI Encuentro Foro de Sao Paulo realizado en la Antigua
- São Paulo Forum - the convergence point of the Latin-American and Caribbean left, Communist Party of Brazil, November 20, 2002
- Echoes of the São Paulo Forum Part 2, Communist Party of Brazil, December 19, 2002
- Echoes of the São Paulo Forum Part 3, Communist Party of Brazil, December 26, 2002
- Participantes en 10° Encuentro del Foro de Sao Paulo piden liberación de cubanos presos en Miami, Granma, 7 de Diciembre de 2001.
