Published by El Nuevo Herald on March 02, 2016
Recently and for the first time in Miami, the XIII Latin American Summit was held in the area. Attended by important personalities, the summit (an event of a private nature), meet 500 people from all over Latin America where they had the opportunity to witness for three days to extraordinary political exhibitors.
The Miami Summit was initiated by political personalities like Luigi Boria and Sandra Ruiz, mayor and deputy mayor of Doral respectively; Jose "Pepe" Diaz and Daniella Levine Cava, Miami Dade commissioners; Raul Martinez and Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Hialeah and Miami respectively.
Among the numerous and formidable representation of political strategists Fernand Amandi from Miami, Yago de Marta from Spain and the acclaimed winner of 29 presidential campaigns, JJ Rendón from Venezuela stood out.
Among the large attendance of foreign politicians were Federico Gutiérrez, mayor of Medellin, Colombia; Dalo Bucaram, a candidate for the presidency of Ecuador, and Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico.
The main feature of all exhibitors was to highlight the importance of Hispanic and Spanish language in the United States and the world, as well as the weight of the Latino vote in the great American nation.
The candidate for the presidency of Ecuador, Abdala Bucaram (Dalo), deepened the importance of the last name in political activities and referred to the family Kennedy, Bush and Fujimori. He coined the phrase "If your name is noisy, do it louder." He recommended "differentiated but not distanced"
At this point we said to him that although Jeb Bush loves his family but differed from his brother President George W. Bush, yet he chose to retire with dignity from the race. Dalo Bucaram said then that Jeb did not handle in its favor the great weight of his last name.
To Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox, we asked a public interest question for the US and countries members of the newly formed Transpacific Partnership (TPP), to whom Mexico also belongs.
We asked: In the light of recent Transpacific Agreement, Mexico needs to reformulate many of its trade agreements previously agreed in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). How do you see this process? The President's reply was: "One thing has nothing to do with the other, it is something positive for the US but does not commit to NAFTA."
Last year we had the opportunity to participate in a conference call with David Simas, Economic White House Counsel. Indeed, the focal point of this conference was the urgent need to redesign the NAFTA agreements in order to reconcile them with the covenants of TPP, of which Mexico is a signatory. As we see, it is opposing positions.
Former President Fox was the most effusive of foreign politicians. He berated Donald Trump stressing that such an illustrious chair, where have sat figures like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, now it was too big for him.
He also expressed agreement with the US relations - Cuba and said that these relations should never be truncated, such as Mexico and Canada, who always maintained diplomatic exchanges with Cuba.
Notably, President Fox, apparently never was interested about the hardships and persecution endured by the Cuban people through many years of harsh dictatorship. The vast majority of democratically elected nations by then, cut ties with the communist regime of Cuba in protest at human rights violations on the island and the absence of all kinds of freedoms.
Today, after three generations that have survived the regime under conditions of hardship, strategies for democratic change in Cuba have changed, without this meaning that crimes against humanity are forgotten. Countries with which the US has restored trade relations have seen a marked improvement in its gross domestic product (GDP). Cuba is no an exception.
A private trade incipient growing on the island will eventually flood the business registers, causing the massive circulation of the dollar and encouraging the export of Cuban goods and services.
Everything will be under the commercial genius who have always shown the Cubans, and that made the island the most developed country in Latin America and the largest and most efficient US trading Latin partner, before 1960.
Benjamin F. DeYurre
Economist and journalist.
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