The General Union of Workers of Spain (UGT) spoke out against the advance of fascism in Europe and the meeting organized by VOX to commemorate October 12, accompanied and supported by the European and Latin American rights, including Venezuelan coup plotters.
The UGT condemned the meeting called by Vox and the European extreme right for this Wednesday at the headquarters of the European Commission in Madrid under the title "Summit of the Iberosphere", refers to a published statement on its website.
It also rejects the objectives of this meeting, which aims to claim colonialism and uses the ECR-Eurolat Political Action Group of the European Parliament to do so.
The union informed that the participation in the Madrid act of representatives of Italian neo-fascism as well as recognized Venezuelan coup plotters, Brazilians and Bolivians, deniers of paramilitary crimes against Colombian social leaders and members of far-right parties accused of their links to drug trafficking and paramilitarism.
About this activity, UGT He made public his criticism of the use of European Union (EU) resources to promote far-right ideas in Europe and Latin America, and to "attack the institutions of the Union and its values of tolerance, peace, unity and harmony."
On the other hand, the EU considers it "curious" that the meeting aims to bring together "defenders of freedom and democracy," when its guests include members of the far right from various European and Latin American countries. These include, for example, representatives of the Hungarian Fidesz party and the Polish Justice Law party, promoters of laws that attack the rights of migrants, women's freedom, and LGBTI rights, and which have received criticism and condemnation from EU institutions.
Reclaim colonialism
The UGT warned that the event is presented as a celebration of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas and will revolve around the delusional claim that Spain is the colonial symbol for Latin America. It also rejects the idea that, more than two centuries after the independence of Latin American countries, they are attempting to use a colonized process as a reference to "build political, cultural, and economic relations."
El syndicate warns that "the holding of this far-right meeting constitutes a new attempt to expand its model of authoritarianism, intolerance, and social exclusion to relations between the EU and Latin America."
The Trade Union Confederation General Union of Workers of Spain (UGT). It was founded in the Workers' Congress of Barcelona in 1888, and shares its historical origin with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
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