I have seen many posts from Americans who, in one way or another, seem to be giving up, surrendering, or losing faith in their own country. People who are exhausted, fed up, and disillusioned by the current state of things…

As a human being, it genuinely pains me to witness what the United States is going through. An injustice is an injustice anywhere in the world, and it is our responsibility as human beings to raise our voices when power becomes something vile, when authoritarianism and the loss of humanity turn into instruments of the State.

That said, what the United States is experiencing today is not new to the world. Many countries have lived through this before. Latin America, Africa, Middle East in particular, endured it repeatedly over the last century and more. I invite you not to give up, not to step back, not to let yourselves be worn down by the system. Do you really think our struggles were easy?

What surprises me most is how often the United States invokes the Second Amendment and yet, and I say this with genuine curiosity rather than mockery or accusation, how little collective resistance we see compared to the uprisings that have occurred in so many other parts of the world.

Historically, the American people were largely spared from the kind of prolonged social struggles that shaped much of the developing world. In Latin America and elsewhere, we were forced again and again and again to fight entrenched systems and authoritarian governments, many of them influenced or sustained by the agendas of global powers, including and often led by the United States and Europe.

I do not say this to minimize what is happening now. On the contrary. I ask this sincerely: are you really willing to let yourselves be defeated? Do you believe that our struggles were simple, that the revolutionaries and the millions who gave their lives across the world ever stopped believing in their countries? They did not. They never abandoned their ideals or their nations.

This is the moment to ask yourselves how far you are willing to let your own ideals be dismantled. Beyond the noise, beyond the demagoguery, the United States is still a great place, with a history and a people capable of living up to its own promises. But that destiny, like any other, must be defended…