The Second Seminar on Struggles Against Neoliberalism concluded at the Darcy Ribeiro School of Health Sciences in Brasilia, with a critical look at the global order and a denunciation of the US blockade against Cuba for over sixty years.
The event brought together researchers, professors, students, and social activists who dissected the roots of the capitalist crisis and its many facets: inequality, wars, environmental collapse, and technological manipulation.
Brazilian doctor Aluisio Pampolha, a leading figure in geopolitical thought from a historical materialist perspective, emphasized that the forum condemned not only the blockade of Cuba, but also the aggressions in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and the imperial maneuvers against Venezuela and North Korea.
From a Latin American and Marxist perspective, the specialists agreed that the “organic crisis of capital” is currently a structural disease that threatens global stability, while financial elites expand job insecurity, rentierism, and inequality.
Idalmis Brook, a counselor at the Cuban Embassy in Brazil, summarized the challenges of the present: armed conflicts, polarization, climate collapse, and a growing social divide.
She alluded to social and media manipulation as a new instrument of global domination and warned of the interconnectedness between technological risks, the geopolitics of war, and the environmental crisis.
She also recalled the visionary thinking of Fidel Castro, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, whose centenary will be celebrated in 2026, and cited his warning: “Bombs may kill the hungry, but not hunger or the just rebellion of the people.”
The history graduate also defended sovereignty, which must be translated into inclusive public policies, the strategic management of natural resources, and popular participation as tools for transformation.
She also criticized the intensification of the US blockade against the island and the pressure Washington exerts on Latin American and European governments to demobilize international support for the annual United Nations resolutions demanding its lifting.
She recalled Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez’s recent denunciations of the United States’ “information poisoning campaign” to distort Cuba’s image and sow political demobilization.
The closing ceremony of the event became an act of protest and hope, in which Fidel Castro’s words resonated with the force of an anthem: “Less luxury and less waste in a few countries so that there is less poverty and less hunger in much of the Earth.”
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
