EDITORIAL

The year that begins today will test the ability of democracy to overcome the dangers that threaten it as a result of the global pandemic.The United States and its allies are enduring tensions within their democracy that hinder common actions that make us lead the war against coronavirus. We must add the rise of populisms that have demonstrated and demonstrate every day and at all hours their uselessness to reach solutions as happens with totalitarianisms when they come to power. It is at this high point in the situation derived from the global pandemic and its consequences that the United States must once again be the arsenal of democracies. It is not an arsenal of weapons, the biological warfare that we have to live requires the weapons of common health policy and global extension, guaranteeing energy supply routes, economic measures and free trade that bring prosperity to the world's societies and that they can enjoy. of democracy in their countries.

The United States and its European and NATO allies suffer daily provocations from the Russian government, which does not hesitate to deploy armies and issue threats. China continues its expansion and military presence with the intention of interfering on the borders of our allies in the Pacific. Today more than ever in this century, democracy fights on several fronts but if humanity manages to overcome the global pandemic, the next day will be the one to return to life and we will have to face great challenges and learn from the lessons that we are learning by marching. forced, although it is something we already knew: democracy must defend itself when it is endangered, whoever the aggressor is, be it a virus or a totalitarian power.

The republics of the American continent also suffer the scourge of populism and demagoguery, trying to hide the shame of their leaders under flags such as indigenism, denying the Hispanic era and leading to fascist dictatorships as happens in Nicaragua, Venezuela or Cuba waving the banner of communism, which only covers the reality of poverty and stagnation, if not the decline of its civil society. Economic progress, progress in democracy, with its freedoms, must count without fissures with the support of the United States and the European nations with a past in the history of the Americas. Interferences by foreign powers that support populist dictatorships are intolerable and seriously distort the progress of the entire continent.

It is necessary that the citizens living in a democracy be made aware that the sanitary measures that are ordered must be complied with, starting with vaccination. We are facing a turning point, it will be necessary to renounce individual rights for the benefit of the collective good without distinctions of any kind. Ideally, the different nations of the world would forget their differences to fight a common enemy. Unfortunately, the facts show that far from that union in the struggle, totalitarian regimes, nationalisms and populisms penetrate deeper into the minds than the evidence of the numbers of deaths, infections, economic and social crisis, all this goes deeper than announcements of sanitary measures. You have to start with the United States and lead the free world against the pandemic. It is a global problem that requires global solutions such as vaccines for all without distinction, rich countries must show solidarity, help manage medical resources and lay the foundations for a basic health service on the African continent. And the only democracy that can lead the way to victory against the pandemic is the United States and its allies.

God bless America

Perry Morton Jr. IV

Owner and Editorial Director of The Adversiter Chronicle