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FOR A NEW INTERNATIONAL ORDER: DEMOCRATIC AND INCLUSIVE

Human beings are facing challenges that have never been presented to us in history, and that threaten life itself on the planet, the most serious being the following:

* Climate change with its terrifying prospects;

* Pandemics such as the one experienced with COVID 19 and of which repetitions are predicted that may be even more severe;

* Wars with their devastating effects;

* and the terrible drama of migrations.

To which we must add others as disastrous as the scarcity of fresh water; drug trafficking, desertification; the attempt by various powers to seize the polar helmets; the definition of the use of outdoor space.

Unfortunately, humanity does not have a functional organization that allows it to face these serious challenges successfully since, the call to fulfill that role, the United Nations Organization, by not being conceived to assume that role, has proven to be inefficient. It needs a deep reengineering.



In reality, its current structure is the culmination of a historical process that began in the mid-19th century, when a handful of Western empires divided the dominion of the planet among themselves, and whose struggle to redistribute that distribution in the end It generated very serious conflicts between them, the culminating points of which were the two so-called World Wars.

The terrible experience of the last of them imposed on the winning powers the need to create a mechanism at the international level that, preserving their interests, would avoid a new direct confrontation between them, the maximum expression of that objective being the so-called "Security Council" and its absurd "veto power" exercised within it by five nations: the United States, Russia, China, France and England.

In the same sense of building the New International Order of the postwar period, these powers were creating organizations and institutions that controlled the economic, social and legal activities of humanity, such as the ILO, the ICJ, the Swift System, the CPI, the IMF, and even FIFA, etc. The current Russian-Ukrainian war has revealed, in stark form, how these institutions irrationally placed themselves at the service of one of the sides in the conflict, contradicting the entire globalizing narrative spread in recent decades and, in this way, paving the way for a true implosion of the current established world order.



That structure needs to be changed. Today we see how a new planet has emerged with more than 190 nations, housing around eight billion inhabitants, which claim a leading role in the direction of the destinies of humanity, claims that are impossible to ignore in the face of the enormous challenges that humanity faces. faces.

It is on this path that our Association has proposed to lend all its collaboration and effort. And we do it with the understanding that it is a very difficult task, due to the strength of the interests of sectors that, in order to maintain their dominant positions, oppose the establishment of an organized system of nations, that is democratic and inclusive and that allows successfully face the challenges ahead.

A PATH OF HOPE

Recent events on the world stage, including regional meetings of countries with positions that disagree with those held by the main powers and votes within the United Nations General Assembly, have made it very clear that the unipolar world that was intended to be established at the end of the Cold War is collapsed, a situation that we, the nations that love democracy and human solidarity, must take advantage of, to create the mechanisms and institutions necessary to conduct the fight against Climate Change and to build a world in which wars disappear, based on democracy, solidarity and inclusion.

It is in this context that we understand that the action of the countries of the Central American and Caribbean region can be decisive in achieving these objectives.