The event aims to promote international leaders who represent and express the ideals of struggle for justice and egalitarian societies

From November 19 to November 23 will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, an alternative counter-summit, just one week from the G20 summit to be held in the same city. It will bring together the world's leading leaders, highlights AFP.

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This event is organized by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and will count with former presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (Argentina) and Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), former President Ernesto Samper (Colombia) leader of the Spanish group Podemos, Pablo Iglesias, as well as the Bolivian vice president, Álvaro García Linera.

"The summit opposed to that of the G20 leaders will also bring together the former mayor of Mexico City, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, the founder of the magazine Le Monde Diplomatique, Ignacio Ramonet and a close bishop of Pope Francisco, Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, among others speakers", reports Infobae.

According to CLASCO, "it seeks to promote the word of international leaders who represent and express the ideals of struggle for more just and egalitarian societies. For this reason, they have entitled the event "First World Forum of Critical Thinking".

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The question that arises is whether Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Ernesto Samper would be morally qualified to speak about equality and just societies when they have been accused and investigated for corruption.

Kirchner 's justice in her country has already issued an order to be held in prison for having led a network that received bribes from public works contractors to achieve contracts with the state. However, parliamentary immunity keeps her safe, although the authorities continue the investigations.

Ernesto Samper, in 1995, was accused by the Colombian justice system of having received financing from drug trafficking for his presidential campaign. This scandal was known as the 8,000 process, which, according to Semana magazine, received that name because it was the number of the file that the Cali Prosecutor's Office had on a search executed in the offices of a Chilean national accountant named Guillermo Pallomari, who was linked to the Cali Cartel.

In the case of Dilma Rousseff, who had to leave the presidency and leave Temer, his vice president in power, according to Clarín, was due to an administrative error but not an act of corruption.

Argentina in crisis

The president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, faces an economic crisis that has led his country – the third economic power in Latin America – to ask for help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stabilize the situation. Despite this, Macri decided to host the G20, perhaps to establish more direct contacts with other leaders of the world and thus take first steps in trade agreements that allow him to strengthen his country economically.

In addition, the president will have to watch out for violent protests and clashes with the public force caused by anti-globalization protesters, which already occurred at the last G20 meeting in 2017 in Hamburg, Germany.

Latin American Post I Edwin Guerrero Nova
Translated from “La contracumbre que lideran Kirchner y Rousseff antes del G20”

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