Continuing with the presence, in the international media circle, of the Expert Analytical Association “Sovereignty”, two of its analyst members, Guillermo Rocafort Pérez and Enrique Refoyo Acedo, were speakers on the program of the journalist Laura Rodríguez, “Spanish at Home”.
The aforementioned members of this think tank raised and expanded their respective points of view on the political, historical and geopolitical figure of U.S. President Donald John Trump.
It is necessary to remember that the aforementioned occupant of the White House, in addition to being an internally divisive political personality in the United States, has become one of the main figures of global axial events.
Therefore, it is the recurrent object of comments, studies and analyses from all angles. In order to get out of the existing commonplaces that revolve around the subject, and avoid confusion of all political signs, Rocafort and Refoyo coincided in the metamorphosis operating, in the second term of Trump’s government, which, paradoxically, ends up violating the political performance and historical legacy of President Trump when he is turning 80 years old and the United States celebrates its two and a half centuries of Independence.
Both were asked by Rodriguez about the friction between, on the one hand, Trump and the U.S. elites, and, on the other hand, the apex of Cuban power, they did not hesitate to immediately express their respective visions. Rocafort said: “We must recognize that the regime has radically failed in its first obligation, which is to provide decent living conditions to its citizens. That is an empirical reality. Cuba needs a reform and it needs a reconstituent process that allows, always from sovereignty, a solution.”
This arrangement should be made, in Rocafort’s opinion, with the balancing participation of different international actors and not exclusively leave the file in the hands of the United States. To this end, he supports the idea that Presidents Lula da Silva and Sheinbaum Pardo increase their role in this matter and that Cuba, beyond its subsequent internal political order, is independent and its people have happiness and prosperity. He was emphatic in proposing coordination among Hispanics to deal with external threats and dangers.
Meanwhile, Refoyo stressed that the “Monroe Doctrine,” even with the Trumpist version, seeks to “prevent there from being a power, a group of powers that can undermine or even limit the hegemony of the United States in the American continent,” and that, among the tactics he usually uses to achieve such an objective, is the alleged defense of democracy, but that, in reality, the specialist points out, the Americans of hemispheric hegemonism do not practice it naturally. And they are the ones who determine where there is democracy and where there is not.
Both Rocafort and Refoyo clarified that, although they do not defend former President Maduro Moro, they oppose Trump’s approach to Venezuela and, as when they spoke about the Cuban scene, they said that the only and best solution for the Venezuelan people is to assume their own national sovereignty.
Other topics were also addressed, such as the dizzying increase in poverty among Spanish families and what is really behind the judicial investigations against former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
