We have heard much about the Latin American energy development plans that inspire greater hope among the peoples of the Latin American region.
Some are excellent and are fundamentally essential for creating a better energy infrastructure that alleviates hardship, corrects errors, and preserves, through rational balance, the natural environment, Native nations, state rights, economic progress, and food sovereignty.
These initiatives cannot be objectively criticized, and they only deserve the support of all the active forces that maintain a sense of balanced and consolidated progress for our region.
Special mention should be made of projects that, with a few exceptions, are predominantly promoted by private companies with hemispheric and global capital that only seek to profit at the expense of the national and sovereign heritage of the people.
We believe it is essential that individuals and collective entities that express themselves within a nationalist framework can build, from the smallest to the largest, the ideal connections and levers to improve the entire energy system, prudently shedding the complications caused by some of the private giants in the global orbit. Therefore, universities, professional associations, social organizations, political structures, environmental activists, and proponents of economic capital defending the country and Latin America can connect based on real differences and build true and constructive unions.
Sectoral and intersectoral meetings can be held without financial factors being a determining factor. They must rely on the inventiveness of the human intellect, the tools of the digital society, and the ability to persuade to gain the interest of the participants.
Today, geographical borders are no longer an impediment to intercommunication and the development of advanced stages of such a project. There are many competent young people and adults who are determined to look ahead and work for energy sovereignty, without retrograde mediation or interference from the powerful.
They are waiting for feasible proposals and can contribute very important elements.
Activism can also be expanded at different levels, making use of available methods, where the specifically technical and the non-strictly technical can coordinate and implement specific actions.
Activism in the media, in educational institutions, and in venues with a majority of the public will be very useful in strengthening the will to find a solution to energy problems. Regarding the monetary factor, there are avenues that can be explored; investors (including state-owned ones) might be inclined to pursue this objective, and there are platforms like the BRICS that have a profile for contributing to these initiatives.
We don’t live in a time where alternatives truly didn’t exist, where only monopolistic and one-way solutions reigned. Those motivated by such a profound task should start at the micro level and scale up to the macro level. It’s not a mission—if that term is appropriate—that must be completed in one or five years. It may take much longer, but it’s the time needed for projects to be effective. Trying is not a pipe dream. Not trying is accepting a system imposed by others for their own benefit.
These are our initial reflections, and we will continue to address them later with more specificity and depth.
