Thursday, December 02, 2021

Democracy Rising in Latin America

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: WORLD DEMOCRACY


Democracy Rising in Latin America

 

The people have spoken in Honduras

Xiomara Castro is elected president

With a promise to end corruption

To help the poor and dispossessed

To bring relief to the oppressed

To liberalize abortion laws

Support the people’s cause

 

They have spoken in Barbados

Electing Sandra Mason president

The first woman in executive residence

Leaving behind English colonialism

Embracing elements of basic socialism

Bidding farewell to the aristocracy

Affirming the values of democracy

 

In Peru the people have spoken

Electing Pedro Castillo of Peru Libre

Rejecting soundly the autocratic right

Pushing the neocons from their sight

To the dismay of corporate powers

Democracy rises to claim the hour

 

The people have spoken in Bolivia

Just as they’ve spoken in Argentina

The question is:

Will America hear their voices?

Will we honor the democratic revival?

Or will we slip back to our imperial ways?

 

 

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