Ibero-American Summit looking at Trump and without Sánchez

On this occasion, the King will not be accompanied by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who will instead attend the COP29 climate summit in Baku (Azerbaijan), after having also declined to attend the European Union summit in Budapest, the first meeting of European leaders following Donald Trump's landslide election victory in the United States. 

If in the Hungarian capital the entire meeting revolved around the measures needed to adopt a strategic line of cooperation or confrontation with the new US Administration, the meeting of the Ibero-American leaders will also focus on future relations with the great neighbour to the north of the Rio Grande. 

Thanks to the King's efforts, Spain's devalued leadership is trying to give meaning to the principles that inspired the creation of these summits in 1991, headed at the time by King Juan Carlos I, Prime Minister Felipe González, and Mexico's 60th president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari. These principles were: to strengthen the Ibero-American Community and ensure its international projection; to promote historical, cultural, social and economic ties between Ibero-American countries; and to implement south-south cooperation in the region. 

The very heritage of Spain's historical legacy, the root and axis of this Ibero-American construction, has been seriously questioned by the relativist wave of ‘Wokism’, born in the universities of the United States, seconded by the indigenist leftism of Ibero-American ‘progressivism’, and widely spread and propagated by the Sao Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group, with the inestimable collaboration of Spain's own ultra-left. 

Thus, this time the king will only have the company of the presidents of the host country, Ecuador (Daniel Noboa), Argentina (Javier Milei), Paraguay (Santiago Peña) and the Dominican Republic (Luis Abinader). Absent will be those of the tyrannies of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela (Miguel Díaz-Canel, Daniel Ortega and Nicolás Maduro, respectively), but also the presidents of the traditional left of large countries on the continent such as Mexico (Claudia Sheinbaum), Brazil (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva), Colombia (Gustavo Petro) and Chile (Gabriel Boric). 

It is therefore not too far-fetched to predict that the star of the summit will surely be the Argentine president, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, with whose entourage he has built solid relations, so that Argentina may once again become Washington's preferred ally in South America. Apart from his clash with Pedro Sánchez, President Milei considers his country's relations with Spain above its leaders. Fortunately, Madrid has once again sent an ambassador to Buenos Aires, after leaving the diplomatic seat vacant for five months, following Minister Oscar Puente's insults to the Argentinean leader, and the latter's accusations of corruption against President Sánchez's wife. 

As for Brazilian President Lula da Silva, his absence may be justified by his busy preparations as host of the G-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro next weekend. 

The dossiers intersect, but with a common denominator: the new international order whose establishment will accelerate with the new enthronement of Donald Trump, and the strong tensions derived from such a decisive telluric movement. 

In some way, all countries and their respective international conglomerates and alliances will take sides, because the only thing that is really incontrovertible is that nothing will ever be the same again.